Stereoviews catalogue.pdf - Sanders of Oxford

Sanders of Oxford
RARE PRINTS & MAPS
Oxford Stereoviews & Photographs
Exhibition 27.07.2012 – 12.08.2012

Following our two previous Oxford in Photo exhibitions, this summer we present a
further collection of Oxford photographs of interesting and unusual views of the city
and colleges, alongside a large selection of stereoviews of Oxford. Amassed over the
past year our collection of over 100 stereoviews includes examples from as early as
the 1850s running into the 20 th century, including albumen and silver gelatin prints.
Inherently magical, stereoviews are important records of places, events and of early
photography prior to the moving image.
By the middle of the 1860’s there were seventeen photographers working in Oxford
providing portraits, views, University sporting scenes and albums. One could buy
individual photos, albums made to order, get one’s portrait done and commission
group portraits. Photos could be purchased loose or mounted on card in a variety of
sizes. With an existing market of well to do gentleman with money to spend and an
ever-increasing tourist trade, Oxford was one of the most lucrative places to be a
photographer. Consequently the famous University city was one of the most
photographed cities in England if not the world during the Victorian period.
Photography in the nineteenth century became a profitable profession for many;
photographs held mass appeal, especially when technology increased their
accessibility. Magic lantern shows and itinerate photographers travelled the country,
as did the “new tourists” eager for souvenirs. Henry Taunt noted that when working
for Edward Bracher, Oxford’s first commercial photographer, that “ many a night I
have had to sit up a mount them [stereoscopic views] to supply the demand…”.
Stereoviews (also known as stereoscopic views or stereocards) recreate the illusion of
depth by taking advantage of the binocularirty of human vision. As our eyes are set
apart each one sends a slightly different image of the world to the brain. The brain
then combines these images into one, a phenomenon that enables us to “see” ever so
slightly, around the sides of objects, providing spatial depth and dimension.
Stereoscopic views consist of two nearly twin photographs - one for the left eye, one
for the right. When they are viewed through a special lens arrangement (a
stereoscope) the brain combines the two flat images and we “see” the illusion of
three-dimensional objects.
The production of binocular images preceded photography and examples of this can
be seen as early as the late 16 th century. Giovanni Battista della Porta (1538-1615)
created binocular drawings, whilst at about the same period Jacopo Chimenti da
Empoli (1554-1640) produced sketches side by side, which clearly indicated his
understanding of binocular vision. The first stereoscopic viewer (stereoscope) was
patented in 1838 by Sir Charles Wheatstone. His device used mirrors to create and
project a 3-dimensional image to the person looking into the device. It was rather
bulky and ungainly, however, and could only be used to view drawings. In 1844, the
art of taking stereoscopic photographs was first demonstrated in Germany, and David
Brewster, in Scotland, created the first of the modern stereoscopic viewers. The most
common process for making stereoscopic cards was through albumen photograph
processing, daguerreotype images being very rare.
The advent of photography catapulted stereoviews into the mainstream and after
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert praised those on view at the 1851 Great Exhibition
they exploded into popularity. This signalled the beginning of a huge trade in
stereoscopes and stereocards. Much like the VCR at the end of the 20 th century at the
end of the 19 th century it was the stereoscope that was the must-have item, with over a
million homes estimated to have owned a stereoviewer by the mid eighteen-fifties.

Although stereoviews were produced of a wide range of subjects they really
flourished within the tourism industry and it was the views of famous buildings,
towns and street scenes that were by far the most popular. The views began to be
printed with information about the image on the back and included in guidebooks of
various cities.
Early stereoviews and most Victorian photographs were not signed or marked by their
makers. As a result in many cases we have had to attribute makers based on the names
pasted in albums and circa dates, as photos would have been reprinted over a number
of years. We have used the types of paper and changes to buildings shown in the
photos to assist us in the dating process.
This collection is a good reflection of a range of photographers, manufacturers and
subject matter. Although frequently depicting typical views of the tourist attractions
of the city, some of the stereoviews and photographs in this collection focus on more
unusual scenes and subject matter, providing a thorough and detailed record of
Oxford during the Victorian era.

STEREOVIEWS
All Souls College
Balliol College
1. [The Reredos, All Souls, Oxford]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 78 x 77 mm each mounted to a
card 84 x 172 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the interior of All
Souls Chapel.
Title written in ink on the front of the
card in ink not affecting image. Stamp
on verso which read P.H. Thomas,
M.P.S. Chemist, 9 Oct 1966 6 High
Street Purtob Tel 294. Purton is in
Wiltshire.. [28680]
£12
3. [Balliol College Hall]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1870
Image 70 x 63 mm mounted to a card
83 x 173 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of Balliol College Hall.
[28614]
£18
2. Chinese Towers, All Souls, Oxford
Albumen Photograph
attributed to Henry Alden
Sold by H. Alden, Stationer & Music
Seller, 35 Corn-Market Street, Oxford.
[c.1870]
Image 78 x 73 mm each mounted to a
card 84 x 170 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of All Souls College.
[28639]
£15
4. [The Gardens, Bailliol College]
Albumen photograph
W.H. Wheeler
Wheeler, 106 High Street, Oxford. [c.
1872]
Image 69 x 69 mm each mounted to
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of The Gardens at
Bailliol College. Manuscript title note
on verso. Wheeler blind stamp on
front. [28431]
£15
Brasenose College

5. 55.Brasenose College Quadrangle :
Eastside
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1860
Image 75 x 67 mm each mounted to a
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
An excellent early stereoview of
Brasenose College Quadrangle.
Small printed title and description label
on purple paper on verso. [28674]
£28
6. [Brasenose College]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1860
Image 76 x 72 each mounted to a card
83 x 174 mm
unmounted
An early stereoview of Brasenose
College. [28647]
£28
7. 30389 F Oxford, Brasenose
College, and Dome of the Camera
Bodleiana.
Silver gelatin print
Rotary Photo, E.C.
London, c. 1920.
Image 75 x 68 mm each, whole card
measures 87 x 177 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of Brasenose College
where the whole card is one large
silver gelatin print.
[28450]
£15
Christ Church College
8. 231. Oxford, Christchurch, Tom
Gate
Albumen photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 77 x 144 mm mountedto a card
83 x 177 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of Tom Tower from St.
Aldates. Title in image. [28458]
£18
9. [Broad Walk, Oxford]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1870
Image 74 x 134 mm mounted to a card
83 x 173 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the Broad Walk.
[28622]
£15
10. [Christ Church Cathedral]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1870

Image 78 x 66 mm mounted to a card
83 x 173 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of Christ Church
Cathedral from the gardens.
Condition: Small loss to the bottom of
the right image. [28616]
£15
E/=G. +R./ 1857.11.30 with printed
lable on verso. [28868]
£20
11. [Christ Church Cathedral,
Oxford]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 78 x 77 mm each mounted to a
card 84 x 172 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the interior of Christ
Church Cathedral.
Title written in ink on the front of the
card in ink not affecting image. Stamp
on verso which read P.H. Thomas,
M.P.S. Chemist, 9 Oct 1966 6 High
Street Purtob Tel 294. Purton is in
Wiltshire. [28681]
£12
12. Christ Church, Quadrangle,
Oxford.
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1857
Image 74 x 63 mm each mounted to a
card 85 x 170 mm
unmounted
An early stereoview of Tom Quad with
the Cathedral spire in the background.
Initialed and date in ink on verso
13. [Interior of Christ Church
Cathedral]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1870
Image 80 x 73 mm each mounted to a
card 84 x 175 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the interior of Christ
Church Cathedral. [28584]
£15
14. [The Broad Walk]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1870
Image 74 x 67 mm mounted to a card
83 x 173 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of The Broad Walk.
[28617]
£15
15. [Christ Church, The Cloisters]
Albumen Photograph
A. L. Coke
Published by F. Jones, London

Image 79 x 77 mm each mounted to a
card 83 x 172 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of The Cloisters, Christ
Church.
[28385]
£15
16. Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford:
The Latin Chapel and Shrine of St.
Frideswide. No. 185
Albumen Photograph
Alexander Wilson
Alexander Wilson, Photographer,
Leamington
Image 80 x 75 mm each mounted to a
card 85 x 174 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the interior of Christ
Church Cathedral
A printed paper lable on verso.
[28679]
£15
17. The Cathdedral, Oxford
Albumen Photograph
attributed to Henry Alden
Sold by H. Alden, Stationer & Music
Seller, 35 Corn-Market Street, Oxford.
[c.1870]
Image 78 x 73 mm each mounted to a
card 84 x 170 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the interior of Christ
Church Cathedral.
[28624]
£15
18. The Cathedral, Oxford.
Albumen Photograph
attributed to Henry Alden
Sold by H. Alden, Stationer & Music
Seller, 35 Corn-Market Street, Oxford.
[c.1870]
Image 78 x 73 mm each mounted to a
card 84 x 170 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the interior of Christ
Church Cathedral.
[28630]
£15
19. [Christ Church]
Albumen Photograph
Hills & Saunders
Hills & Saunders, c. 1870
Image 80 x 76 mm each mounted to a
card 84 x 173 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of Christ Church by Hill
and Saunders. Hills and Saunders
blindstamp on front of the card.
[28644]
£20
20. (20) Christ Church College,
Oxford.
Albumen Photograph
Philip H. Delamotte

Published by Spiers & Son, 102 & 103
High Street, Oxford, Corner of Oriel
Street c. 1850
Image 76 x 72 mm each mounted to a
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the Catherdral tower
and Spire from Tom Quadrangle.
Printed lable on verso.
[28437]
£20
A stereoview Tom Tower from St.
Aldate’s.
Printed lable on verso.
[28438]
£25
21. (20) Christ Church College,
Oxford.
Albumen Photograph
Philip H. Delamotte
Published by Spiers & Son, 102 & 103
High Street, Oxford, Corner of Oriel
Street c. 1850
Image 76 x 72 mm each mounted to a
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the Catherdral tower
and Spire from Tom Quadrangle.
Printed lable on verso.
[28444]
£20
23. (56) Christ Church College,
Oxford, West Front.
Albumen Photograph
Philip H. Delamotte
Published by Spiers & Son, 102 & 103
High Street, Oxford, Corner of Oriel
Street c. 1850
Image 76 x 72 mm each mounted to a
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
A stereoview Tom Tower from St.
Aldate’s.
Prtinted lable on verso.
[28439]
£25
Corpus Christi College
22. (56) Christ Church College,
Oxford, West Front.
Albumen Photograph
Philip H. Delamotte
Published by Spiers & Son, 102 & 103
High Street, Oxford, Corner of Oriel
Street c. 1850
Image 76 x 72 mm each mounted to a
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
24. [Corpus Christi College, Oxford]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1870
Image 74 x 67 mm mounted to a card
83 x 173 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of Corpus Christi
College.
[28618]
£18

25. (15) Corpus Christi College.
Albumen Photograph
Philip H. Delamotte
Published by Spiers & Son, 102 & 103
High Street, Oxford, Corner of Oriel
Street c. 1850
Image 76 x 72 mm each mounted to a
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
A stereoview the first quadrangle
looking towards the entrance gate.
Printed lable on verso.
[28446]
£25
Exeter College
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 77 x 70 each mm mounted to a
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the interior of Exeter
College Chapel. [28623]
£15
28. Interior of Exeter Chapel, Oxford.
Albumen Photograph
attributed to Henry Alden
Sold by H. Alden, Stationer & Music
Seller, 35 Corn-Market Street, Oxford.
[c.1870]
Image 78 x 73 mm each mounted to a
card 84 x 170 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the interior of Exeter
College Chapel.
[28638]
£15
26. [Exeter College Chaple]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1870
Image 79 x 68 mm each mounted to a
card 84 x 170 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the interior of Exeter
College Chapel. [28583]
£15
27. [Interior of Exeter College
Chapel, Oxford]
29. [Interior Exeter College Chapel]
Albumen photographs
Robert Hills
Hills, Photographer, Oxford
Image 77 x 71 mm each mounted to a
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the Interior of Exeter
College.
This stereoview is blindstamped Hills
Photographer Oxford, placing the date
of this stereoview between 1856-1861.
[28387]
£15

Jesus College
30. [Interior Exeter College Chapel]
Albumen photographs
Robert Hills
Hills & Saunders, Oxford, c.1865.
Image 77 x 71 mm each mounted to a
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the interior of Exeter
College Chapel with Hills & Saunders,
Oxford, blindstamp on forn Blue label
n verso that reads Exeter College,
Oxford. A.D. 1314. Dated 1865 in ink
This stereoview is blindstamped Hills
Photographer Oxford, placing the date
of this stereoview between 1856-1861.
[28388]
£15
32. [Jesus College, Oxford]
Albumen Photograph
Robert Hills
Hills Photographer, Oxford. c. 1856
Image 66 x 131 mm mounted to a card
82 x 178 mm
unmounted
An early stereoview of the exterior of
Jesus College looking south down Turl
Street, mounted on blue card with gilt
edges.
This stereoview is blindstamped Hills
Photographer Oxford, placing the date
of this stereoview between 1856-1861.
Condtion: Small loss to card on upper
right not affecting images. [28853]
£20
Magdalen College
31. 30389 I Oxford, Exeter College
Chapel.
Silver gelatin print
Rotary Photo, E.C.
London, c. 1920.
Image 75 x 68 mm each, whole card
measures 87 x 177 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of Exeter College Chapel
where the whole card is one large
silver gelatin print.
[28449]
£15
33. [Magdalen College]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1870
Image 78 x 66 mm mounted to a card
83 x 173 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of Magdalen College
Tower. [28615]
£25

34. [Magdalen College from the
Botanic Gardens]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1860
Image 72 x 65 mm mounted on a card
84 x 174 mm
unmounted
An early stereoview showing
Magdalen College Tower from the
Bontanic Gardens.
Condition: some light soiling on the
card [28586]
£25
35. [Magdalen College, from within
the Cloisters]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1860
Image 71 x 66 mm each mounted on a
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
An early stereoview of Magadalen
Cloisters. Printed lable with
description pasted to verso. [28603]
£18
Magdalen College Crest and motto
affixed to the back of the card.
[28620]
£20
37. [Magdalen College, Pugin’s Gate]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1860
Image 70 x 59 mm each mounted to a
card 84 x 174 mm
unmounted
An early stereoview of Pugin’s Gate,
Magdalen College. [28585]
£20
38. [Magdalen College, The Cloister
Tower]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1860
Image 71 x 68 mm each mounted on a
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
An early stereoview of Magadalen
Cloister Tower. [28604]
£18
36. [Magdalen College, Oxford
Pugin’s Gate]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1870
Image 68 x 131 mm mounted to a card
83 x 173 mm
unmounted
An unusual early stereoview of
Magdalen College with an embossed
39. [Magdalen Tower West, Oxford]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1860

Image 70 x 69 mm each mounted on a
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
An early stereoview of Magadalen
Tower from the High Street. Title
written on verso.
Condition: Some fading to right image
and two small marks in the same
image. [28602]
£18
40. [The New Buildings, Magdalen
College]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1860
Image 72 x 63 mm each mounted on a
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
An early stereoview of the New
Buildings, Magdalen College. [28605]
£18
41. Addison’s Walk, Magdalen
College, Oxford.
Albumen Photograph
attributed to Henry Alden
Sold by H. Alden, Stationer & Music
Seller, 35 Corn-Market Street, Oxford.
[c.1870]
Image 78 x 73 mm each mounted to a
card 84 x 170 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of Addison’s Walk,
Magdalen College.
[28625]
£15
42. Magdalen College from the
Bridge, Oxford.
Albumen Photograph
attributed to Henry Alden
Sold by H. Alden, Stationer & Music
Seller, 35 Corn-Market Street, Oxford.
[c.1870]
Image 78 x 73 mm each mounted to a
card 84 x 170 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of Mgadalen College
Tower from the bridge.
[28628]
£25
43. Tower of Magdalen from the
Bontaic Gardens, Oxford.
Albumen Photograph
attributed to Henry Alden
Sold by H. Alden, Stationer & Music
Seller, 35 Corn-Market Street, Oxford.
[c.1870]
Image 78 x 73 mm each mounted to a
card 84 x 170 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the Tower of
Magdalen College from the Botanic
Gardens.
[28637]
£20

44. Tower of Magdalen from Botanic
Gardens, Oxford
Albumen Photograph
Henry Alden
Sold by H. Alden, Stationer & Music
Seller, 35 Corn-Market Street, Oxford.
[c.1870]
Image 78 x 73 mm each mounted to a
card 84 x 170 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of Magdalen College
Tower with a paper H. Alden lable on
verso.
[28460]
£20
Published by Spiers & Son, 102 & 103
High Street, Oxford, Corner of Oriel
Street c. 1850
Image 76 x 72 mm each mounted to a
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the entrance
Addison’s Walk, Magdalen College.
Printed lable on verso.
Condition: Title written in ink on front
under images in a contemporary hand.
[28669]
£20
45. (46) Entrance to Magdalen
College
Albumen Photograph
Philip H. Delamotte
[Published by Spiers & Son, 102 &
103 High Street, Oxford, Corner of
Oriel Street c. 1850]
Image 76 x 72 mm each mounted to a
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
A stereoview Entrance to Magdalen
College.
Printed lable on verso.
[28440]
£25
47. (58) Magdalen Tower, Oxford,
from the River Cherwell
Silver gelatine print
Realistic Travels
Realistic Travels, London, Cape Town,
Bombay, Melbourne, Toronto [
Image 81 x 77 each mounted on a card
88 x 177 mm
A stereoview of Magdalen Tower from
the Cherwell.
[28442]
£20
46. (49) Addison’s Walk, Magdalen
College.
Albumen Photograph
Philip H. Delamotte
48. [Magdalen College Cloisters,
Oxford]
Albumen Photograph
Robert Hills
Hills Photographer, Oxford. c. 1856
Image 69 x 132 mm mounted to a card
82 x 178 mm
unmounted
An early stereoview of the Magdalen
College Cloisters on blue card with gilt
edges. Blinstamped Hills
Photographer Oxford on front.

This stereoview is blindstamped Hills
Photographer Oxford, placing the date
of this stereoview between 1856-1861.
Condtion: Small loss to card on upper
right not affecting images. [28850]
£20
Merton College
49. Saint Mary Magdalene College,
Oxford
Albumen Photograph
S. Thompson
Published by T. and G. Shrimpton,
Broad Street, Oxford. [n.d. c. 1865]
Image 76 x 68 mm each mounted on a
card 84 x 175 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of Magdalen College
looking towards St. Clements. [28164]
£20
51. 36. Part of the Merton College,
from the Meadows
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1860
Image 77 x 67 mm each mounted to a
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
An early stereoview of the south front
of Merton College from the Meadows.
Small printed title and description label
on purple paper on verso.
Condtion: Images slightly faded.
[28677]
£20
50. (2) Magdalen College, Oxford.
Albumen Photograph
Philip H. Delamotte
Published by Spiers & Son, 102 & 103
High Street, Oxford, Corner of Oriel
Street c. 1850
Image 76 x 72 mm each mounted to a
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of Magdalen College
Tower from the Botanic Gardens.
Printed lable on verso.
[28436]
£20
52. (35) South Front of Merton
College; from the Meadows
Albumen Photograph
Philip H. Delamotte
Published by Spiers & Son, 102 & 103
High Street, Oxford, Corner of Oriel
Street c. 1850
Image 76 x 72 mm each mounted to a
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the South Front of
Merton College with a group of
students in the foreground.
Printed lable on verso.
Condition: Images slightly faded and
card soiled. [28671]
£20

53. [Merton College, Oxford]
Albumen Photograph
Robert Hills
Hills Photographer, Oxford. c. 1856
Image 71 x 127 mm mounted to a card
82 x 178 mm
unmounted
An early stereoview of the North face
of Merton College along Merton
Street, mounted on blue card with gilt
edges. Blinstamped Hills
Photographer Oxford on front.
This stereoview is blindstamped Hills
Photographer Oxford, placing the date
of this stereoview between 1856-1861.
Condtion: Small loss to card on upper
right not affecting images. [28852]
£20
55. [New College Quadrangle]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1860
Image 76 x 71 mm each mounted on a
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
An early stereoview of New
CollegeQuadrangle [28607]
£20
New College
54. [New College Gateway]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1860
Image 75 x 66 mm each mounted on a
card 82 x 174 mm
unmounted
A stunning early stereoview of New
College Gateway.
[28606]
£25
56. The Chapel, New College, Oxford.
Albumen Photograph
attributed to Henry Alden
Sold by H. Alden, Stationer & Music
Seller, 35 Corn-Market Street, Oxford.
[c.1870]
Image 78 x 73 mm each mounted to a
card 84 x 170 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the interior of New
College Chapel, Oxford. [28629]
£15
57. The Chapel, New College, Oxford
Albumen Photograph
attributed to Henry Alden
Sold by H. Alden, Stationer & Music
Seller, 35 Corn-Market Street, Oxford.
[c.1870]

Image 78 x 73 mm each mounted to a
card 84 x 170 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of exterior of the Chapel.
Condition: slightly light image with a
mark in the right image. [28641]
£18
58. The Chapel, New College, Oxford
Albumen Photograph
attributed to Henry Alden
Sold by H. Alden, Stationer & Music
Seller, 35 Corn-Market Street, Oxford.
[c.1869]
Image 78 x 73 mm each mounted to a
card 84 x 170 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of exterior of the Chapel.
Printed lable on verso. Date dedication
in inkon verso.: Emma Hume from
Julia R. Murray 1869.
Condition: slightly light image with a
mark in the right image. [28673]
£18
59. The Chapel, New College, Oxford
Albumen Photograph
Henry Alden
Sold by H. Alden, Stationer & Music
Seller, 35 Corn-Market Street, Oxford.
[c.1870]
Image 78 x 73 mm each mounted to a
card 84 x 170 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of New College Chapel
with a paper H. Alden lable on verso.
[28969]
£14
60. (13) New College, Oxford.
Albumen Photograph
Philip H. Delamotte
Published by Spiers & Son, 102 & 103
High Street, Oxford, Corner of Oriel
Street c. 1850
Image 76 x 72 mm each mounted to a
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the entrance to the
Chapel and Warden’s Lodgings in
New College.
Printed lable on verso.
Condition: Two diagonal creases
through card and photos. [28435]
£12
61. (24) New College, Oxford
Albumen Photograph
Philip H. Delamotte
Published by Spiers & Son, 102 & 103
High Street, Oxford, Corner of Oriel
Street c. 1850
Image 76 x 72 mm each mounted to a
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of a scholar in New
College cloisters.
Printed lable on verso.
[28443]
£25
Oriel College
62. Oriel College, Oxford.
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1860
Image 76 x 144 mm mounted to a card
84 x 174 mm

Unmounted
An early stereoview of Queen’s
College [28643]
£28
St. John’s College
An early stereoview of the front of
Oriel College and part of Oriel Square.
Paper title pasted to verso. [28648]
£28
63. (11) St. Mary’s Chrurch, Oxford.
Albumen Photograph
Philip H. Delamotte
Published by Spiers & Son, 102 & 103
High Street, Oxford, Corner of Oriel
Street c. 1850
Image 76 x 72 mm each mounted to a
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of St. Mary’s Tower and
Spire from Oriel Square.
Printed lable on verso.[28445]
£25
Queens College
64. [High Street, Oxford, Queens
College]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1860
Image 75 x 67 mm each
unmounted
65. [St. John’s College, Oxford]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1870
Image 72 x 63 mm mounted to a card
83 x 173 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the front of St. John’s
College.
[28619]
£20
66. Second Court, St. John’s Oxford
Albumen Photograph
attributed to Henry Alden
Sold by H. Alden, Stationer & Music
Seller, 35 Corn-Market Street, Oxford.
[c.1870]
Image 78 x 73 mm each mounted to a
card 84 x 170 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the Second Court, St.
John’s College.
[28626]
£18

67. [St. John’s College, Oxford]
Albumen Photograph
Robert Hills
Hills Photographer, Oxford. c. 1856
Image 71 x 127 mm mounted to a card
82 x 178 mm
unmounted
An early stereoview of the front of St.
John’s College mounted on blue card
with gilt edges. Blinstamped Hills
Photographer Oxford on front.
Condtion: Small loss to card on upper
right not affecting images. [28851]
£20
unmounted
A stereoview of the front University
College.
[28649]
£30
Wadham College
Trinity College
68. 30389 L Oxford, Trinity College,
The President’s House and Chapel
Silver gelatin print
Rotary Photo, E.C.
London, c. 1920.
Image 75 x 68 mm each, whole card
measures 87 x 177 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of Trinity College where
the whole card is one large silver
gelatin print.
[28453]
£15
70. (45) Front of Wadham College.
Albumen Photograph
Philip H. Delamotte
Published by Spiers & Son, 102 & 103
High Street, Oxford, Corner of Oriel
Street c. 1850
Image 76 x 72 mm each mounted to a
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
A stereoview the front of Wadham
College.
Printed lable on verso.
[28441]
£25
Worcester College
University College
69. University College, Oxford.
Albumen Photograph
S. Thompson
Published by T. and G. Shrimpton,
Broad Street, Oxford.
Image 71 x 63 mm each mounted to a
card 84 x 173 mm
71. [Worceter College, Oxford]
Albumen Photograph
Robert Hills
Hills Photographer, Oxford. c. 1856
Image 67 x 132 mm mounted to a card
82 x 178 mm
unmounted
An early stereoview of Worcester
College, mounted on blue card with
gilt edges. Blinstamped Hills
Photographer Oxford on front.
This stereoview is blindstamped Hills
Photographer Oxford, placing the date
of this stereoview between 1856-1861.

Condtion: Small loss to card on upper
right not affecting images. [28854]
£20
Broad Street
Bodleian Library
72. The Schools, Oxford.
Albumen Photograph
attributed to Henry Alden
Sold by H. Alden, Stationer & Music
Seller, 35 Corn-Market Street, Oxford.
[c.1870]
Image 78 x 73 mm each mounted to a
card 84 x 170 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of The Schools.
[28640]
£18
74. [Broad Street]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1860
Image 74 x 136 mm mounted to a card
85 x 175 mm
unmounted
An early stereoview of Broad Street
looking east showing the Calrendon
Building, part of Exeter College, and
the complex of buildings that now
form Blackwell’s [28581]
£30
Botanic Garden
73. Stereoscopic View of Oxford: 66 -
Botanic Gardens. The Fern House
Albumen Photograph
F. York
F. York, c. 1870-80
Image 78 x 77 mm each mounted to
card 84 x 172 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the intrior of the Fern
House at the Botanic Garden with
printed lable on the front. [28456]
£15
75. (8) Broad Street, Oxford.
Albumen Photograph
Philip H. Delamotte
Published by Spiers & Son, 102 & 103
High Street, Oxford, Corner of Oriel
Street c. 1850
Image 76 x 72 mm each mounted to a
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the Broad Street.
Printed lable on verso.
Condition: Images faded. The right
more faded than the left. [28670]
£20

Divinity School
76. The Divinity Schools, Oxford.
Albumen Photograph
attributed to Henry Alden
Sold by H. Alden, Stationer & Music
Seller, 35 Corn-Market Street, Oxford.
[c.1870]
Image 78 x 73 mm each mounted to a
card 84 x 170 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the interior of the
Divinity Schools.
[28627]
£18
77. The Divinity Schools, Oxford.
Albumen Photograph
attributed to Henry Alden
Sold by H. Alden, Stationer & Music
Seller, 35 Corn-Market Street, Oxford.
[c.1870]
Image 78 x 73 mm each mounted to a
card 84 x 170 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the interior of the
Divinity Schools.
[28672]
£18
78. The University Buildings, Oxford.
Albumen photograph
Hills & Saunders
Hills & Saunders , Photographers to
Her Majesty the Queen. 16,
Cornmarket Street, Oxford, and at
Cambridge, Eton, Harrow, and
London.
Image 83 x 73 each mounted to a card
84 x 173 mm
unmounted
A very fine stereoview of The Divinity
School with a wonderful printed lable
on the verso. [28386]
£20
79. (59) Oxford. The Divinity School,
where Parliment when driven from
London by the Plague.
Silver gelatine print
Realistic Travels
Realistic Travels, London, Cape Town,
Bombay, Melbourne, Toronto [
Image 81 x 77 each mounted on a card
88 x 177 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the Divinity School.
[28447]
£20
General Views
80. [Oxford]
Albumen Photograph
Alfred R.Mowbray
Photographed by Mowbray, 2, Corn
Market Steet, Oxford.[n.d. c. 1865]
Image 67 x 127 mm
Unmounted

A stereoview of the Oxford skyline
taken from a roof near Carfax looking
across towards the Radcliffe Camera,
the Bodliean, New College and All
Souls.
[28167]
£30
[28434]
£20
81. [St. Aldate’s St.,Oxford]
Albumen Photograph
Robert Hills
Hills Photographer, Oxford. c. 1856
Image 67 x 132 mm mounted to a card
82 x 178 mm
unmounted
An early stereoview of St. Aldate’s
Street looking towards Christ Church
College, mounted on blue card with
gilt edges. Blinstamped Hills
Photographer Oxford on front.
This stereoview is blindstamped Hills
Photographer Oxford, placing the date
of this stereoview between 1856-1861.
Condtion: Small loss to card on upper
right not affecting images. [28855]
£25
82. Parks Road, Oxford
Albumen photograph
The London Stereoscopic Company
The London Stereoscopic Compnay,
54 Cheapside. [London, c. 1854-59]
Image 71 x 69 mm mounted to a card
83 x 173 mm.
unmounted
A scarce stereoview looking up Parks
Road from Catte Street.
The London Stereoscopic Company
blind stamp on front. Title in
manuscript on verso.
83. [Oxford from Magdalen Tower]
Albumen Photograph
Wheeler & Day
Wheeler & Day, Oxford. c. 1870
Image 80 x 71 mm each mounted to a
card 85 x 177 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the Oxford skyline.
Wheeler & Day stamp printed on front
of card. The intials T.E. stamped on
verso.
Conditon: Images faded. [28678]
£25
High Street
84. 18. Oxford High Street
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
Image 79 x 78 mm each mounted on
card 83 x 176 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of Oxford High Street.
Condition: scuff on bottom of left
image. [28165]
£25
85. [High Street, Oxford]

Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1850
Image 81 x 66 mm each mounted to a
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
A fantastic early stereoview of Oxford
High Street. [28642]
£30
This stereoview is blindstamped Hills
Photographer Oxford, placing the date
of this stereoview between 1856-1861.
Condtion: Small loss to card on upper
right not affecting images. [28867]
Not for sale
Martyrs’ Memorial
86. (1) High Street, Oxford.
Albumen Photograph
Philip H. Delamotte
c. 1860
Image 74 x 67 mm each mounted to a
card 83 x 171 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the High Street.
Printed lable on verso.
[28646]
£30
88. 9. The Martyrs’ Memorial
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1860
Image 77 x 67 mm each mounted to a
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
An early stereoview of the Martyrs’
Memorial.
Small printed title and description label
on purple paper on verso. [28676]
£15
87. [High Street,Oxford]
Albumen Photograph
Robert Hills
Hills Photographer, Oxford. c. 1856
Image 67 x 132 mm mounted to a card
82 x 178 mm
unmounted
An early stereoview of the High Street
taken from near the east end of St.
Mary’s Church looking towards
Carfax. You can see the shops along
the south side of the High Street
incluning 104 High Street. mounted on
blue card with gilt edges. Blinstamped
Hills Photographer Oxford on front.
89. [Martyrs’ Memorial]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1860
Image 70 x 69 mm each mounted on a
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
An early stereoview of the Martyrs’
Memorial. [28601]
£15

90. The Martyr’s Memorial, Oxford.
Albumen Photograph
attributed to Henry Alden
Sold by H. Alden, Stationer & Music
Seller, 35 Corn-Market Street, Oxford.
[c.1870]
Image 78 x 73 mm each mounted to a
card 84 x 170 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the interior of the
Martyrs’ Memorial with the Taylorian
in the background.
[28636]
£15
92. [Martyrs’ Memorial, Oxford]
Albumen photograph
Wheeler & Day
Wheeler & Day, 106 High Street,
Oxford. [c. 1866-1871]
Image 80 x 67 mm each mounted to
card 83 x 173 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the Martyrs’ Memorial
with a manuscript title note on verso.
Wheeler & Day blind stamp on front.
[28432]
£15
Oxford Churches
91. The Martyr’s Memorial, Oxford.
A.D. 1841
Albumen Photograph
Robert Hills
Hills Photographer, Oxford. c. 1856-
1861
Image 69 x 64 mm each mounted to a
card 85 x 165 mm
unmounted
An early stereoview of the Martyrs’
Memorial.
Paper lable with title on verso.
This stereoview is blindstamped Hills
Photographer Oxford, placing the date
of this stereoview between 1856-1861.
Condtion: Small loss to card on upper
right not affecting images.
[28675]
£18
93. Church of St. Mary Magdalene,
Oxford.
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1857
Image 74 x 63 mm each mounted to a
card 85 x 170 mm
unmounted
An early stereoview of St. Mary
Magdalene Church with part of
Magdalen Street visible in the left of
the image. Initialed and date in ink on
verso E/=G.+ R./ 1857.11.30 with
printed lable on verso. [28869]
£20

94. The Chancel, St. Mary’s Church,
Oxford
Albumen Photograph
attributed to Henry Alden
Sold by H. Alden, Stationer & Music
Seller, 35 Corn-Market Street, Oxford.
[c.1870]
Image 78 x 73 mm each mounted to a
card 84 x 170 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the interior of St.
Mary’s Church, Oxford. [28635]
£15
Image 80 x 75 mm each mounted to a
card 88 x 178 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of St. Mary’s Church
with a printed lable on the front with
text that reas: Sold only by Underwood
& Underwood, Liverpool, New York,
Chicago, Toronto, Ottowa, Kas.-El
Paso, Tex.
[28448]
£15
Oxford Museums
95. 30389 E Oxford, St. Mary’s
Porch.
Silver gelatin print
Rotary Photo, E.C.
London, c. 1920.
Image 75 x 68 mm each, whole card
measures 87 x 177 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of St. Mary’s Church
The whole card is one large silver
gelatin print.
[28452]
£15
97. 240 Oxford New Museum
Silver gelatin print
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 76 x 145 mm mounted to a card
89 x 173 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the interior of the
Oxford University Museum of Natural
History.
Condition: Some staining to card in
lower right [28582]
£25
96. St. Mary’s Church, Oxford,
England.
Albumen Photograph
Underwood & Underwood
Strohmeyer & Wyman Publishers,
New York, Copyright 1893.
98. [Ashmolean Museum]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 82 x 77 mm each mounted to a
card 88 x 178 mm
unmounted
An uncommon stereoview of the
Ashmolean. [28621]
£20

Radcliffe Camera
Sheldonian Theatre
99. The Schools, Etc.
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
Image 72 x 132 mm mounted to a card
85 x 170 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of Cat Street with the
bottom of the Radcliffe Camera on the
left, All Souls on the right and the
Bodliean in the background left. The
card has a printed boarder and text.
[28166]
£25
101. 30389 B Oxford. The Sheldonian
Theater.
Silver gelatin print
Rotary Photo, E.C.
London, c. 1920.
Image 75 x 68 mm each, whole card
measures 87 x 177 mm
unmounted
A stereoview of the Sheldonian where
the whole card is one large silver
gelatin print. [28454]
£15
Thames Views
100. [Radcliffe Camera]
Albumen Photograph
Hills & Saunders
Hills & Saunders, c. 1860
Image 80 x 76 mm each mounted to a
card 84 x 173 mm
unmounted
A early stereoview of the Radcliffe
Camera by Hill and Saunders. Hills
and Saunders blindstamp on front of
the card and a paper title lable on the
verso.
[28645]
£30
102. [The Isis - June 1st 1867]
Albumen Photograph
Hills & Saunders
Oxford, c. 1867
Image 82 x 73 mm each mounted to 84
x 174 mm card
unmounted
A stereoview of the Isis.
[28163]
£20

Stereo Viewers
The “Perfecscope”
H.C.White Co
Trade Mark.
U.S.A. Patent Oct.15.1895
A beautifully decorated, velvet edged nineteenth century Stereo viewer in excellent
condition.
£95
[Stereoscope Viewer]
Manufactured by Underwood & underwood, New York. Patented U.S.A. June 11.
1901
A beautifully decorated, velvet edged Victorian Stereo viewer in excellent condition.
£90
[Stereoscope Viewer]
c.1900
A wood and leather Victorian Stereo viewer.
Condition: Small piece of the eye guard missing, otherwise in good condition and full
working order.
£70

PHOTOGRAPHS
All Souls College
103. All Souls
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1860
Photograph 58 x 89 mm, Watercolour
boarder 125 x 150 mm 40 cm wide
Mounted
An early photograph showing the 18th
century Hall with a highly decorative
watercolour boarder [28745]
£65
A Victorian photograph of All Souls
Quadrangle with the Radcliffe Camera
in the background. [28820]
£40
Balliol College
104. [All Souls College]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1871
Image 86 x 93 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of front of All
Souls college taken from the High
Street looking East. [28764]
£20
106. [Balliol College]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1871
Image 103 x 149 mm
A Victorian photograph of Balliol
College Oxford.
Conditon: a crack inthe photo surface
and two small areas of loss to image
surface in lower centre of image.
[28818]
£20
107. [Balliol College Chapel]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1860
Image 157 x 122 mm
mounted
105. [All Souls Quad]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c.1880
Image 122 x 194 mm

Brasenose College
An early photograph of the exterior of
Balliol College Chapel. [28687]
£50
109. [Brasenose College, Front]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1871
Image 89 x 90 mm
mounted
[28758]
£20
108. [Balliol College Front]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1860
Image 117 x 156 mm
mounted
An early photograph of the exterior of
Balliol College Front. [28688]
£50
110. [Brasenose College, Old Quad]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1871
Image 89 x 88 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of Brasenose
Old Quad showing the sundial and the
Cain and Able statue. [28759]
£15

111. [Brasenose College Quad]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
mounted
A Victorian photograph of Brasenose
Quad. [28819]
£40
113. [Brasenose Old Quad]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1871
Image 90 x 88 mm
Framed
An interesting photograph of
Brasenose with showing men on
scaffolding refacing and restoring the
tower with the Radcliffe Camera
behind. [28756]
£50
112. [Brasenose Old Quad]
Albumen photograph and watercolour
Anonymous
c. 1860
Photograph 58 x 88 mm, Watercolour
boarder overall 160 x 158 mm and 32
mm wide
Framed
An early photograph of Brasenose
College Old Quad with a decorative
watercolour boarder surrounding it.
[28744]
£70
114. Brasenose College
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875
Image 103 x 169 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the Old
Quad, Brasenose College by George P.
Day.
[28790]
£45
Christ Church College
115. Christ Church College, Oxford
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 57 x 84 mm
mounted

A Vixctorian photograph of Christ
Church College looking south down
St. Aldates. [28714]
£20
116. [Christ Church College, Tom
Quad]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 148 x 200 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of Tom Quad
looking towards the Hall with the spire
of the Cathedral in the background.
[28821]
£45
118. [Tom Quad, Christ Church]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1860
Image 205 x 268 mm
mounted
A large early photograph of Tom
Quad, Christ Church College. [28738]
£80
117. [Christ Church Meadows]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1871
Image 102 x 185 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the Christ
Church Meadows walk. [28816]
£35
119. Tom Tower Christ Church
College
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1870
Image 238 x 192 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of Tom Tower
from [28778]
£65

A Victorian photograph of the Broad
Walk, Christ Church College by
George P. Day.
[28794]
£40
120. The Broad Walk “Summer”
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875
Image 162 x 116 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the Broad
Walk, Christ Church College by
George P. Day.
[28793]
£40
122. Christ Church
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875
Image 98 x 167 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph by George P.
Day of the front of Christ Church
College from St. Aldates looking
south.
[28783]
£55
123. Christ Church Canterbury Gate
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875
Image 96 x 166 mm
mounted
[28779]
£45
121. The Broad Walk “Winter”
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875
Image 162 x 118 mm
mounted

124. Christ Church The Meadow Gate
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875
Image 163 x 117 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the
Meadow Buildings, Christ Church
College by George P. Day.
[28792]
£40
126. [Corpus Christi College, Oxford]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1860
Image 208 x 262 mm
mounted
A large early photograph of the
quadrangle of Corpus Christi College
with a group of students around the
Pelican Sundial. [28737]
£100
Corpus Christi College
125. [Corpus Christi College Chapel]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1860
Image 84 x 58 mm
127. [Fellows’ Buildings, Corpus
Christi College]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1860
Image 65 x 84 mm
mounted
An early photograph of the
Fellows’Buildings. [28748]
£15
Mounted
An early photograph of the interior of
Corpus Christi College Chapel.
[28747]
£12

128. Corpus Christi College.
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875
Image 103 x 169 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the
quadrangle Corpus Christi College by
George P. Day.
[28791]
£45
Exeter College
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 88 x 60 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the interior
of Exeter College Chapel.
Condtion: Mark in upper portion of
image. [28718]
£10
131. [Exeter College and the Turl]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1870
Image 121 x 191 mm
129. [Exeter Chapel, looking East]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 88 x 60 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the interior
of Exeter College Chapel.
[28719]
£15
A Victorian photograph of the front of
Exeter College and the length of Turl
Street. [28777]
£65
132. [Exeter College, Broad Street,
Oxford]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 149 x 210 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the front of
Exeter College in Broad Street with the
Old Ashmolean to its left. [28717]
£60
130. [Exeter Chapel, looking West]

c. 1880
Image 150 x 211 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the front of
Exeter College in Turl Street with the
Swiss Cottage in the foreground left.
[28716]
£60
133. [Exeter College Hall, Gateway]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 65 x 62 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the entrance
to Exeter College Hall. [28721]
£12
134. [Exeter College in the Broad]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 57 x 83 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the front of
Exeter College in Broad Street with the
Sheldonian and Clarendon Buildings in
the background. [28715]
£20
136. [The Hall, Exeter College]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 64 x 60 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the interior
of Exeter College Hall. [28720]
£10
135. [Exeter College in The Turl]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
137. Exeter College Chapel East
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875
Image 162 x 117 mm
mounted
[28788]
£40

138. Exeter College Chapel West
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875
Image 160 x 117 mm
mounted
[28789]
£40
Image 98 x 167 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the
quadrangle Lincoln College by George
P. Day.
[28803]
£55
Magdalen College
Jesus College
139. Jesus College
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875
Image 100 x 169 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the
quardrangle of Jesus College by
George P. Day.
[28799]
£40
Lincoln College
140. Lincoln College
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875
141. [Founders Tower, Magdalen
College]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 133 x 131 mm
A Victorian photograph of the
founders tower in the Cloiseters
[28705]
£40
142. Magdalen College
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 64 x 76 mm
Mounted

A Victorian photograph of Magadalen
Tower taken from the High Street.
[28708]
£25
144. [Magdalen College Tower from
the Botanic Gardens]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1871
Image 92 x 91 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of Magdalen
College Tower from the Botanic
Gardens.
Condition: Small tear in bottom centre.
[28765]
£20
143. [Magdalen College from the
Gardens]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1870
Image 182 x 105 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of Magdalen
College from the gardens on the banks
of the Cherwell. [28824]
£35
145. Magdalen from the Cherwell
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1875
Image 130 x 202 mm
mounted
[28815]
£65

146. [Open Air Pulpit]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1860
Image 171 x 116 mm
mounted
An early photograph of the Open Air
Pulpit in Mgadalen College. [28739]
£35
148. Magdalen College
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875
Image 104 x 172 mm
mounted
[28780]
£55
Magdalen College Grammar School
149. [Old Grammar School,
Magdalen College, Oxford.]
Albumen Photograph
attributed to Davis
Davis’s Series, c. 1890
Image 137 x 99 mm
Mounted
147. Magdalen Tower, Oxford.
Albumen Photograph
Davis
Davis’s Series, c. 1890
Image 135 x 116 mm
mounted
A Davis’s Series photograph of
Magdalen College Tower. [28724]
£45
A Davis’s Series photograph of the
Old Magdalen College Grammar
School. [28726]
£45

Merton College
150. [Merton College Chapel]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1864
Image 92 x 88 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of Merton
College Chapel exterior taken from the
south with the scaffolding for the
Grove Building just visible in the right
of the image. [28771]
£15
152. [Merton College from the Fields]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1864
Image 82 x 89 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of Merton
College showing the building of the
Grove Building. [28760]
£20
151. [Merton College from the Fields]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1871
Image 85 x 89 mm
mounted
A photograph of the the south front of
Merton College from the meadows.
[28755]
£15
153. [Merton College Quad]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1871
Image 87 x 85 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of Merton
College Quad. [28769]
£15

154. [Merton College Quad]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1871
Image 87 x 85 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of Merton
College Front Quad. [28770]
£15
156. [Merton Street]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1870
Image 135 x 205 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of Merton
Street looking towards Corpus Christi
College. [28825]
£45
155. [Merton Quad, Entrance to Hall]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1871
Image 89 x 89 mm
mounted
[28757]
£15
157. Merton Chapel
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875
Image 161 x 104 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the exterior
of Merton College Chapel by George
P. Day.
[28795]
£40

New College
158. Merton College from the Fields
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875
Image 98 x 165 mm
Mounted.[28786]
£55
161. [New College Cloisters]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 58 x 77 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the East
side of New College Cloisters, with a
man reclining on the grass and the
Chapel in the background.. [28711]
£20
159. Merton College from the
Gardens
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875
Image 98 x 165 mm
Mounted. [28781]
£45
160. Merton College from the
Gardens
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875
Image 98 x 167 mm
mounted
[28782]
£45
162. [New College Quad]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1871
Image 90 x 92 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of New
College Quad looking towards the
entrance to the Hall. [28775]
£15

163. [New College Quad]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1871
Image 87 x 97 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of New
College Quad looking towards the
Chapel. [28776]
£15
165. New College from the Gardens
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875
Image 98 x 167 mm
mounted
[28784]
£55
166. New College and Bell Tower,
Oxford 4648. G.W.W.
Photograph
George Washington Wilson
c. 1870
Image 136 x 206 mm
mounted
[28812]
£65
164. New College Chapel
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875
Image 163 x 119 mm
mounted
[28785]
£35
167. New College Cloisters, Bell
Tower, & Chapel, Oxford 3512
G.W.W.
Photograph
George Washington Wilson

c. 1870
Image 97 x 152 mm
mounted
[28811]
£45
168. New College, Old Entrance
Platinum Print
Gillman & Co.
c. 1880
Image 290 x 238 mm
mounted
A platinum print of New College Old
Entrance. Blindstamped Gillman &
Co, Photographers, St. Aldates.
[28822]
£120
Oriel College
170. [Oriel College]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 87 x 63 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of Oriel
College Front Quadrangle. [28713]
£15
171. [Oriel College]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1871
Image 88 x 92 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the front of
Oriel College looking north towards
Oriel lane. [28766]
£20
169. [Oriel College]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1860
Image 109 x 156 mm
mounted
Condition: Some loss to image lower
left. [28686]
£50

172. Oriel College
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875
Image 92 x 166 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of Oriel
College Quad by George P. Day.
[28796]
£45
Framed
A lovely early photo of Oriel College.
[28685]
£95
Pembroke College
173. [Oriel College]
Albumen photograph
W.A. Mansell & Co.
c. 1875
Image 100 x 168 mm
mounted
Blindstamped W.A. Mansell & Co.
and numbered 152 in negative.
Condition: Laid to an album page.
[28683]
£50
175. Pembroke College
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875
Image 98 x 166 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the
quardrangle of Pembroke College by
George P. Day.
[28800]
£45
Queens College
174. [Oriel College]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1860
Image 156 x 118 mm
176. [Queen’s College Library]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1871
Image 86 x 84 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the interior
of Queens College Library. [28762]
£15

177. [Queens College]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 117 x 147 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of Queens
College [28706]
£50
179. [Queens College Quad]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1871
Image 88 x 93 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of Queens
College. [28763]
£20
178. [Queens College, Oxford]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 87 x 64 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the front of
Queens College.
[28712]
£20
180. Queen’s College
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875
Image 98 x 167 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the front of
Queen’s College by George P. Day.
[28804]
£55

St. John’s College
181. [St. John’s College]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1871
Image 88 x 87 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of St. John’s
College. [28754]
£15
183. [St. John’s College, Oxford]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1860
Image 138 x 110 mm
mounted
A lovely early photograph of St. John’s
College, with its album page. [28749]
£55
182. [St. John’s College Chapel]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1871
Image 90 x 90 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the interior
of St. John’s College Chapel. [28768]
£15
184. [Garden Front of St. John’s
College]
Photograph
attributed to George Washington
Wilson
c. 1870
Image 127 x 200 mm
mounted
[28813]
£45

A Victorian photograph of the interior
of St. John’s College Chapel by
George P. Day.
[28798]
£35
Trinity College
185. St. John’s College
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875
Image 160 x 117 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the front of
St. John’s College by George P. Day.
[28797]
£45
187. Trinity College
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875
Image 98 x 165 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the
quardrangle of Trinity College by
George P. Day.
[28801]
£40
University College
186. St. John’s College Chapel
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875
Image 163 x 114 mm
Mounted
188. [University College]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1871
Image 82 x 84 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the front of
University College from the High
Street looking east. [28774]
£20

189. [University College Chapel]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1871
Image 82 x 82 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of University
College Chapel interior looking
towards the chancel. [28773]
£15
191. [Photograph album by a
University College Student]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1869 - 71
4to
A fascinating annotated album
compiled by a student (possibly
S.R.Osbourne) at University College
Oxford recording his friends, travels
and landmarks.
190. [University College Quad]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1871
Image 82 x 82 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of University
College Front Quad. [28772]
£20
Page 1- Portraits of J.Mills, W.Mills,
J.R.Mills, H.J.Mills, A.A.Mills,
Page 2 - Cathedral
Page 3 - Two portraits, Stonehenge
Page 4 - Grasmere, Rifdal
Westmoreland
Page 5 - Portraits of S.A.Osborne,
J.Shelley, H.Vaughan, P.L.Holland
Page 6 - University College, Oxford
Page 7 - Portraits of E.L.Holland,
H.C.Sturges, E.L.Elwes,
P.A.Scratchley, H.Vaughan &
S.R.Osbourne University College
Page 8 - View from Magdalen Tower,
Oxford
Page 9 - Oxford from Magdalen
Tower,
Page 10 - Blank

Page 11- The gateway of Magdalen
College, Oxford
Page 12 - Shanklin Chine, Isle of
Wight (1869)
Page 13 - Portraits of Mrs Theobald,
Rev C.Theobald, Chale Rectory, Isle of
Wight.
Page 14 - The Land’s End.visited 1869
Page 15 - Four sports team group
photographs
Page 16 - The Cloisters, Magdalen
College Oxford.
Page 17 - Portraits of W.G.Robinson,
W.C.Eaton, G.Brown, R.G de
V.Thomas, S.Pelham.
Page 18 - The new buildings &
“Fellows Quadrangle”. University
College Oxford.
Page 19 - Portraits of J.F.Clerk
(1870), H.C.Sturges, G.A.Holmes,
R.S.Faber (1869), H.Bidder
Page 20 - University College
Page 21 - University College group,
May 1869
Page 22 - Trinity College Oxford
Page 23 - Portraits of Graham.T.Smith
(Trin, Oxon), J.H - (Trin, Oxon),
J.S.S.Mahou, J.H.H, J.R.E.Sumner
Page 24 - University College Library.
Page 25 - Portraits of C.F.Fellows,
H.C.Sturges, E.L.Elwes (Alpine
Climbers) & Two others.
Page 26 - Christ-church College,
Oxford.
Page 27 - Portraits of H.G.Watkins and
one other.
Page 28 - The Masters Quadrangle,
University College.
Page 29 - Portraits of C.F.Fellows,
Hon J.C.H.Gordon, C.E.Brooke,
J.J.Greenham & two others.
Page 30 - The Martyrs Memorial &
Balliol College, Oxford
Page 31 - Portraits of T.Godolphin
Rooper, B.Bosenquet, R.A.G.Tatton,
J.R.Graham, C.B.Heloerden.
Page 32 - The Eights, May 1870.
Page 33 - University College group,
June 1870.
Page 34 - Lannion Bzelerenez fr: the
Plouaret road, Bridge on the Guer,
Lannion, Lannion in Brittany & Hotel
de France, 1870.
Page 35 - Oxford reading party at
Hotel de France, 1871 featuring
Hon.F.A.R.Russell (ch.ch): G.A.Hilme
(Univ): A.G.Rickards (B.N.C)
S.H.Woodhouse (Univ): Bickerstalt
(ch.ch): J.S.Leadan (Univ). J.Hodgson
(Univ). S.R.Osborne (Univ):
A.Bickerstalt (ch.ch): Bruse (the dog)
Page 36 & 37 - Photographic
caricatures.
Page 38 - Group portrait of
S.R.Osborne, Vaughan, H.Sturges.
Page 39 - Group portrait of E.L.Elwes,
Sturges, H.Vaughan, E.L.Holland,
A.Lee, smaller vision of photo on
previous page with Elwes replacing
Osbourne, portrait of E.Sutton,
W.B.Ingham.
Page 40 - The Head of Windermere
Lake - 1871.
Page 41 - Skelwith Force [near
Ambleside] on the Brathay.
Page 42 - The Eights 1871.
Page 43 - Portraits of S.H.Woodhouse
(President of Vincent’s Club 1869),
G.F.Boyd, W.T.Langford and one
other.
Page 44 - Middle Lake Killarney with
the Tor Mountain infront and
Mangerton Mt behind, Lower Lake,
Killarney - Glena May 1871.
Page 45 - Muckroaa Abbey, Holycross
Abbey, Rock of Castle- Tipperary -
Ireland.
Page 46 - Blank.
Page 47 - Group portrait of Boyd,
Vaughan, Lee, Walker, Shelley, Faber,
Elwes.
Page 48 - Lucerne with Mt Polatas on
front, Interlaken, the Jungfrau in the
distance, Lake Geneva showing the
Castle of Chillon and the Dent du
Mede.
Page 49- Valley of the Rhone - view
from the Fardaz (Tete Noire)
Page 50 - Church of Norton St
Philip.Somerset.
Page 51 - Portraits of E.H.M.W,
Mr.A.Wightnan, V.W, Emily
Wightman, F.O.W.
Also enclosed loose:
Printed handout commemorating the
death of Herbert Court Sturges, Vicar
of Bodenham, with extract from the

notice posted in the Guardian written
by Rev.E.L.Elwes. Photograph of a
flower covered grave possibly that of
Herbert Court Sturges. Photograph of a
female with a horse. Photograph of a
child on a horse with handler.
Photograph of a seated male and
female. Photograph of a large country
house with family members in the
foreground
Condition: Lacking covers.
[28899]
£575
A Victorian photograph of the
quardrangle of the front of Wadham
College by George P. Day.
[28802]
£45
Worcester College
Wadham College
192. [Wadham College]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1871
Image 84 x 88 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the front of
Wadham College. [28767]
£15
194. [Worcester College]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1871
Image 86 x 87 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of Worcester
College. [28751]
£15
193. Wadham College
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875
Image 98 x 165 mm
mounted
195. [Worcester College]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 11871
Image 87 x 88 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of Worcester
College. [28753]
£15

Bodleian Library
196. [Worcester College Front]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1871
Image 85 x 86 mm
framed
A Victorian photograph of the front of
Worcester College. [28752]
£45
198. [The Schools Tower]
Photograph
attributed to George Washington
Wilson
c. 1870
Image 200 x 152 mm
mounted
[28814]
£55
197. [Worcester College, Old
Buildings]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1871
Image 87 x 91 mm
mounted
[28750]
£15
199. The Schools Tower
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875

Image 162 x 114 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the Schools
Tower by George P. Day.
[28805]
£40
Broad Street Views
200. Broad Street: The Sheldonian,
Exeter College
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875
Image 102 x 167 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of Broad
Street showing the Clarendon
Building, the Sheldonian, the front of
Exeter College and 26 Broad Street.
[28787]
£55
Albumen Photograph
attributed to Davis
Davis’s Series, c. 1890
Image 154 x 101 mm
The Carfax Conduit was a water
conduit that supplied the city of
Oxford with water from 1617 until the
19th century. The conduit ran in an
underground lead pipe from a spring
on the hillside above the village of
North Hinksey, beneath Seacourt
Stream and the River Thames, to a
building at Carfax in the centre of
Oxford. The system was built by Otto
Nicholson, a London lawyer, to supply
the citizens of Oxford with clean
water. It replaced a system built by
Osney Abbey between 1205 and 1221
that had fallen into disrepair. In 1786
it was removed because of traffic
congestion and offered to Lord
Harcourt as feature for his park.
[28731]
£35
Cornmarket Views
Carfax Conduit
201. [Carfax Conduit in Nuneham
Park]
202. [Cornmarket Street, Oxford]
Silver gelatin print
Henry Taunt
c. 1885
Image 147 x 198 mm
Framed
A photograph showing St Michaels
Church, Cornmarket Street, Oxford,
Oxfordshire. Looking north along the
commercial street toward the late 11th
century tower with its distinctive twolight
bell openings. It was just beyond
this church that the medieval north gate
of stood leading off into St Giles.
Condtion: laid to an album page
[28740]
£140

Divinity School
General Views
203. [Divinity School]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 84 x 57 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the interior
of the Divinty School. [28707]
£15
205. [Christ Church Walks with
Magdalen College in the distance]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1871
Image 105 x 184 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of Christ
Church Meadows with Magdalen
Tower in the background. [28808]
£40
204. The Divinity School
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875
Image 114x 170 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the Divinity
School by George P. Day.
[28807]
£40
206. [Oxford from Magdalen Tower]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 59 x 95 mm
Framed
A lovely small format Victorian
photograph of Oxford. [28700]
£65
207. [Oxford from Magdalen Tower]
Albumen Photograph

Anonymous
c.1871
Image 110 x 180 mm oval
Framed
A lovely rich Victorian photograph of
Oxford from Magadalen Tower.
[28817]
£145
Condition: Laid to an album page
[28697]
£40
High Street
208. [View of Oxford from Trinity
College]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1870
Image 125 x 160 mm
An unusual view of Oxford from
Trinity College over the city showing
the compleated Exeter College Chapel
and the yet unchanged building at 26
and 27 Broad Street, which were
remoldeled in 1889. In the distance are
the spires of The Schools, the
Sheldonian, St. Mary’s, Merton
Chaple, and All Saints. [28732]
£80
Godstow
209. [The Trout Inn, Godstow]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 101 x 168 mm
A Victorian photograph of The Trout
Inn, at Godstow.
210. [High Street, Oxford]
Permenant photograph on glass
W.H. Wheeler
W.H. Wheeler’s 106 High Street
Oxford, c. 1872 - 1880
Image 360 x 445 mm
framed
A superb original and one of a kind
Chromotype photograph of Oxford
High Street.
The process for the permanent
photograph on glass was patented by
William Robert Ake in April 1871.
The photograph would have been taken
in the usual way by photosensitizing a
glass plate with a bromide colloidon.
The plate was then put into a silver
bath and exposed to light. The plate
would then be put into a bath of
pyrogallic acid or proto-sulphate, fixed
by cyanide of potassium or
hyposulphate of soda, wash and dried.
To stain the picture permanently on
glass the print was then placed in an
airtight kiln until every part of the
photo became dark brown. It was then
cooled and washed. From Patents for
Inventions Abridgments or
Specifications relating to Photography,
London, 1880.
Photograph in its original frame.
[28898]
£750

211. [High Street, Oxford]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1886-9
Image 110 x 145 mm
framed
An atmospheric photo of Oxford
possibly taken on a foggy day, as there
are no shadows on the ground.
Scaffolding is just visible where
Brasenose College is in the
background The new facade of the
college on the High Street was built in
1886-9 by Jackson, placing the date of
this photograph in this time period.
[28742]
£80
213. [Oxford High Street]
Albumen Photograph and watercolour
Anonymous
c. 1860
Photograph 58 x 92 mm, Watercolour
boarder overall 157 x 220 mm
diamond
framed
An early photograph of Oxford High
Street with a a decorative boarder
painted around it. [28746]
£90
212. [Oxford High Street]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 64 x 76 mm
Framed
A Victorian photograph of Oxford
High Street.
[28704]
£65
214. [Old House High Street, Oxford]
Albumen Photograph
attributed to Davis
Davis’s Series, c. 1890
Image 159 x 117 mm
mounted
No. 126 High Street dates from the
fifteenth century, and has a late
seventeenth-century façade. It is the
only remaining example of this type of
architecture in Oxford. The structure of
the fifteenth-century house can be seen
inside, and the cellar is probably

medieval. It is a Grade II listed
building (ref. 1485/343).
£75
The first owner of this house was a
bell-founder, and in 1350 it was owned
by St Frideswide Abbey. It was
refronted in the later seventeenth
century, probably by Robert Pauling, a
mercer who was Mayor in 1679.
In 1772 a survey of every house in the
city was taken in consequence of the
Mileways Act of 1771. No. 126 was
then in the occupation of a Mr Madge,
and its frontage measured 6 yards 2
feet 9inches.
Sources:
http://www.headington.org.uk/oxon/high/t
our/south/126.htm
[28728]
£45
215. [High Street, Oxford]
Albumen Photograph
Hall
c.
Image 155 x 200 mm
mounted
Condition: A repaired tear lower left
through image [28734]
£45
217. [Iffley Lock]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 101 x 168 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of Iffley
showing the tow path and gate on the
left and the mill and lock in the
distance on right.
Condition: Laid to an album page
[28696]
£40
Martyrs’ Memorial
Iffley
216. [Iffley]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 166 x 209 mm
mounted
A view of Iffley from the banks of the
Thames with Iffley Church in the
backrgound. [28699]

218. [Martyrs’ Memorial, Oxford]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 194 x 145 mm
A nice largeVictorian photograph of
the Oxford Martyrs’ Memorial with the
facade of Balliol College in the
background. [28722]
£50
Image 118 x 163 mm
Mounted
Nixon’s Free Grammar School had
been founded in 1658 for the sons of
freemen of Oxford by John Nixon (or
Nickson) (1588–1662), a mercer who
was three times Mayor of Oxford. The
city council had first considered
founding such a school in 1576, but
only took action when Nixon offered
£30 a year to pay a master’s stipend,
provided that the city provided a
suitable schoolroom. It was situated in
the Town Hall Yard. It survived for
235 years until 1894, when it was
closed, despite opposition by the
Oxford freemen, following bad reports
by the government inspector. [28727]
£45
Oxford Churches
219. The Martyrs’ Memorial
Albumen Photograph
George P. Day
c. 1875
Image 160 x 114 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the
Martyrs’ Memorial with the Randolf
Hotel and the Ashmolean Musuem in
the background by George P. Day.
[28806]
£40
Nixon’s School
220. [Nixon’s School]
Albumen Photograph
attributed to Davis
Davis’s Series, c. 1890
221. [West End, Iffley Church]
Albumen Photograph
attributed to Davis
Davis’s Series, c. 1890
Image 154 x 101 mm
mounted
A late Victorian Photograph of Iffley
Church.
[28730]
£35

A scarce early view of the college
barges on the Thames on Commeration
Day.
Condtion: Small loss to image in the
upper left. [28735]
£180
Randolf Hotel
222. St. Michael’s Church, Oxford
Albumen Photograph
Hills & Saunders
Hills & Saunders, Oxford, c. 1881
Image 200 x 129 mm
mounted
Hills & Saunders stamp on verso.
[28741]
£40
224. [The Randolf Hotel]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1871
Image 102 x 150 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the Randolf
Hotel [28810]
£50
St.Clement’s
Oxford Sports
223. [Commemoration day Oxford]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1860
Image 212 x 280 mm
Framed
225. [St. Clement’s Toll Gate]
Photograph
Anonymous
c.1860
Image 150 x 190 mm
mounted
A view of St. Clement’s Toll Gate as
seen from Magdalen Bridge. The old
Toll Gate, built in 1818, was
demolished in 1874 to make way for
the Victoria Fountain. Paid for by the

owners of Morell’s Brewery in Oxford,
the fountain was formally opened by
Princess Louise, Queen Victoria’s
daughter on 25 May, 1899. [28381]
£50
A Victorian photograph of the Isis
from the boat yard looking across to
the College barges. [28702]
£85
226. [St. Clement’s Toll Gate from
Magdalen Bridge]
Photograph
Anonymous
c.1860
Image 150 x 190 mm
mounted
A view of St. Clement’s Toll Gate as
seen from Magdalen Bridge. The old
Toll Gate, built in 1818, was
demolished in 1874 to make way for
the Victoria Fountain. Paid for by the
owners of Morell’s Brewery in Oxford,
the fountain was formally opened by
Princess Louise, Queen Victoria’s
daughter on 25 May, 1899. [28380]
£50
228. [The College Barges]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1871
Image 105 x 184 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the College
Barges from the South bank of the
Thames with Folly Bridge in the
distance left. [28809]
£45
Thames Views
227. [The College Barges]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 111 x 188 mm
Mounted
229. [The Isis]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 70 x 88 mm
mounted
A view of the Thames at Folly Bridge
looking out from the boat yard towards
the College barges.
[28701]
£45

With printed title pasted below image.
[28684] £45
230. [The River Isis]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1870
Image 101 x 180 mm
mounted
A Victorian photograph of the College
Barges on the Thames. [28823]
£45
Oxfordshire
231. Abingdon, distant View from
S.W.
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
Image 117 x 181 mm
mounted
232. [Nuneham Bridge and Cottage]
Albumen Photograph
Anonymous
c. 1880
Image 100 x 168 mm
A Victorian photograph of the bridge
and cottage at Nuneham
The rustic wooden bridge, built by
Capability Brown during his
landscaping of the gardens in 1779-82,
with the thatched roof of the lockkeepers
cottage beyond. On Tuesdays
and Thursdays during the season,
picnic parties were allowed to land at
the bridge, which stood in the parkland
of the Harcourt Family. The estate
cottages were built in 1832 by W S
Gilpin on the site of the old village.
[28698]
£20

Photographers, Printers & Publishers Biographies.
In order of catalogue appearance
STEREOVIEWS:
Henry Alden
Henry Alden, Printer, bookseller, stationer and music seller, depot of British and Foreign
Bible Society and English and Foreign Library Co. Ltd is at 35 Cornmarket 1867-1928.
Known as Alden & Co., Printers, publishers, stationers & booksellers by 1890. In 1911, “The
Isis (Alden & Co. Limited, printers, booksellers &c)” is added.
W.H. Wheeler
W.H. Wheeler worked with Henry Taunt at 106 High Street from at least 1861 when it was
Wheeler James. By 1866, the firm was known as Wheeler & Day and became W.H.
Wheeler’s in 1872.
Rotary Photographic Company
Rotary Photographic Company London was a branch of NPG Germany,10&11 Austinfriars
99, Berlin. Cards made by this company have been found dated as early as 1908 into the mid
1920s. A young East Prussian, Arthur Schwarz, founded NPG in 1894, renting a building in
Schöneberg near Berlin. He marketed photographs and supplies, including stereoscopes.
Within three years NPG had outgrown its rented quarters and Schwarz purchased a spacious
complex in Berlin-Steglitz. At its peak, the company was a pioneer in color photography, had
more than 1000 employees, and included subsidiary offices in London, Paris, Rome, and New
York. Due to the impact of the war, NPG closed the Steglitz plant in the winter of 1921-22,
and its name passed to a firm in Dresden.
Alexander Washington Wilson
The illegitimate son of George Washington Wilson, Alexander was born in 1842. His mother,
Isabella Johnstone, was a farmer’s daughter who refused to marry the boy’s father. Wilson
père took full responsibility for the boy throughout his upbringing and taught him everything
he knew about photography During the 1860’s, Alexander moved to Leamington Spa where,
with capital from his father, he established himself as a photographer and a bookseller. [Roger
Taylor, George Washington Wilson: Artist and Photographer, 1981].
Hills and Saunders
Hills and Saunders is one of the longest- established names in photography and is in operation
today. Robert Hills and his brother-in-law Henry Saunders were hairdressers and wig
makers in Oxford, but quickly realized the potential photography had as a new form of artistic
expression and commercial venture. They opened their first studio in Harrow-On-The- Hill in
1852. Over the years they opened studios in Oxford, Cambridge, Harrow, Eton, Sandhurst,
Aldershot and Rugby. Robert Hills formally established his first commercial photographic
premises in Oxford at 16 Cornmarket Street in 1856, Oxford, and was trading as Hills &
Saunders from at least 1861. They became one of the key photographers of Victorian society
and several of their images are on display in the National Portrait Gallery. Robert Hills and
John Henry Saunders were appointed as photographers to Edward Prince of Wales in 1863
while he was at Oxford University shortly followed by the opening of their Oxford
Photographic Gallery in Eton in around 1863. From then on their business flourished, and
they were in constant demand when the Court was in residence at Windsor, proudly receiving
their first Royal Warrant from HRH Queen Victoria in 1867.
Philip H. Delamotte
Philip H. Delamotte (1821 - 1889) Philip Delamotte was a calotype photographer, and one of
the first to use photography for documentary purposes. Delamotte was commissioned to
document Crystal Palace and in 1855 he published his two volume work entitled
"Photographic Views of the Progress of the Crystal Palace, Sydenham", containing 160
architectural photographs.

Joseph Cundall
Joseph Cundall was Delamotte's publisher, and it was at his house that one of the first
commercial photographic exhibitions took place, with some 350 photographs available for
sale. Together with Roger Fenton he founded the Calotype Club in London. He taught
drawing to members of the Royal Family, and later he was appointed Professor of Drawing at
King's College, London. Delamotte also wrote a book entitled "The practice of photography:
a manual for students" - a work which went into its third edition.
Spiers & Son
Spiers & Son were stationers, desk & dressing-case makers, and had general fancy warehouse
in 102 & 103 High Street from 1834-1890.
Realistic Travels
Realistic Travels was founded by H. D. Girdwood and produced high quality stereographs for
British audiences. They made set of stereoviews of 600, 500, 400 300, 200, and 100 views,
with sub sets of 25 and 32 images. The company was known to be in operation from 1908 to
1916, but cards were produced into the 1920s under the name Realistic Travels.
S. Thompson
Little is know about Thompson and only five views of England by Stephen Thompson are
recorded by Treadwell - they are exceptionally rare. Thompson worked with a team of
photographers that included William Russell Sedgfield and lead by photographer William
England, on a series of 350 stereoviews of the 1862 International Exhibition.
Thomas Shrimpton
Thomas Shrimpton was a book and print seller and publisher whose shop was at 23 & 24
Broad Street, Oxford.
Alfred R. Mowbray
Alfred R. Mowbray was a photographer and bookseller who operated from No. 2 Cornmarket
Street, Oxford c. 1859-1867. A R Mowbray and Co
Founded in Oxford in 1858 by Alfred R Mowbray (1824-75) as religious booksellers and
suppliers of ecclesiastical fittings and perquisites of all kinds (including glass), the firm’s
works and shop were there. A London branch, opened in 1873, was for many years in
Margaret Street. Their work continued almost unchanged well into the C20, as a catalogue of
their wares of 1926 shows and they supplied mainly churches of an Anglo-Catholic
persuasion. The ecclesiastical fittings business was taken over by J Wippell and Co in the
1970s, but the name survives as a separate entity for religious works within Hatchard's
bookshop in Piccadilly, like Mowbray’s now part of the Waterstones chain. In later years
they did not design the goods they sold, but commissioned others, though few can be credited
to a name. Among designers of glass they used A L Ward.
The London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company
The London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company began in 1854 as the London
Stereoscope Company (LSC),u nder the leadership of Managing Partner George Swan
Nottage from 1856 was known as the London Stereoscopic Company and was operating from
54 Cheapside, and from May 1859 as the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company. It
closed in 1922.
Underwood & Underwood
The Underwood & Underwood Company started in 1882 in Ottawa, Texas, when two
brothers, Elmer and Bert Underwood, started a business of house-to-house distribution of
stereoviews. Within a few years, they had a distribution network covering most of the United
States and later included subjects from around the world. In the early 1890s Bert Underwood,
who had never taken a photograph, took lessons in photography, which allowed him to
introduce a high standard of quality in the choice of subjects and in photography composition
and interest. By 1901, Underwood & Underwood was by far the largest publisher, with a
production of 25,000 stereoviews per day and 300,000 stereoviewers per year. The total
number of titles issued is estimated to be between 30,000 and 40,000. In 1902, they bought
the Strohmeyer and Wyman publishing company, which had been publishing views with

Underwood & Underwood copyright. In 1912, Underwood sold the rights to most of its
negatives to Keystone, and few titles were published after that date. In 1923, the remaining
stock were transferred to Keystone and Underwood ceased all stereoscopic activities.
Most Underwood views were published on tan mount, although later views used harder dark
gray mounts, which had been introduced by Keystone. This view was published by
Strohmeyer and Wyman with Underwood & Underwood copyright are included in this
section of the catalog. Aside from the publisher's name they are indistinguishable in style,
presentation and captions. Many views were published under both names. Most Underwood
views were not numbered.
In terms of subject coverage, Underwood is eclectic and strong in all areas. The focus is on
quality and interest of the photography, with no particular area of specialization. The whole
range of civilian and military topics is covered in all their details, from city views, rivers and
harbors, rural scenes and people to American soldiers, shooting and battle scenes, prisoners,
dead soldiers and hospitals. As is typical of the time, many captions are condescending and
sometimes outrageously arrogant or racist. Captions of military views are nationalistic and
praise the valor of American soldiers, and tend to belittle the Insurrectos.
PHOTOGRAPHS:
George P. Day
George P. Day operated from 1872-1876 in 95 High Street (presumably breaking away from
Wheeler & Day). Wheeler & Day operated from 1866-1871 at 106 High Street after they
bought Edward Bracher’s business . In 1872, they appear to have split into two separate
businesses, with Wheeler remaining at 106 and Day moving into 95 High Street
George Washington Wilson
George Washington Wilson (7 February 1823 - 9 March 1893) was a pioneering Scottish
photographer. Pioneering the development of techniques for photography outside of the
studio and the mass production of photographic prints, he moved increasingly from
portraiture to landscape photography in the 1860s. He also produced stereoscopic pictures
whose main characteristic was that exposures were very short. By 1864 he claimed to have
sold over half a million prints. At the time of his death in 1893 (he had handed over the
business to his sons, Charles, Louis and John Hay Wilson in 1888) the firm employed 40 staff
and was one of the largest publishers of photographic prints in the world, competing with
James Valentine, who was also a prolific photographer, with a large company in Dundee. The
business survived until 1908, when it was wound up at auction.
George Walker
George Walker, stationer, bookseller and friend of Wilson tells us that in 1855 'stereoscopic
views began to appear at this time, and Wilson experimented. Early views by Wilson,
although his technique was not perfected, found a ready market at 2/- (15 cents) each. This
was the period when the railways were opening up what until then had been far-flung areas to
tourism, and one of the first regions to feel the benefit of a vast influx of tourists (all wanting
photograpic souveniers) was the Trossachs and Loch Katrine immortalized by Sir Walter
Scott in his epic work 'The Lady of the Lake'.
Gillman & Co
Gillman & Co, eventually to become Gillman and Soame, were another major photographic
company that is still operating today. Charles Gillman first had his shop in 1882 at 107 St.
Aldate's. The first mention of Gillman and Co. is in 1880. In 1891, Gillman & Co received
royal recognition with their appointment to HRH The Prince of Wales. In 1931, they
incorporated George Leslie's photographic studios and were based at 16 Cornmarket Street.
In 1932, they incorporated Hills and Saunders and by 1938 they were based in 56 High Street
and 30 Cornmarket. The company specialised in group portraits and sporting scenes.
W.A. Mansell & Co
W.A. Mansell & Co. were photographers and fine art publishers in London on Oxford Street.

Henry Taunt
Henry Taunt was born William Henry Taunt in St Ebbe's, Oxford, in 1842, the son of a
plumber and a domestic servant, he reversed the order of his forenames in adult life and
became Henry William. His schooling was brief and he worked for several years before
joining the Oxford photographer, Edward Bracher, in 1856. He set up his own photographic
business Taunt & Co in 1868 and ran it until his death at the age of 80 in 1922. His firm took
more than 60,000 photographs during that time, creating an unrivalled record of Victorian and
Edwardian Oxford and Oxfordshire and the River Thames from source to sea.
Henry Taunt's black and white photographs consist primarily of views of Oxford, (together
with surrounding counties) and the River Thames. The producer of the first ever guide book
of the Thames to be illustrated with photographs Taunt played a vital part in establisihing the
river as an area for recreation after the Thames above London lost most of its freight traffic to
the increasing rail network. Jerome K. Jerome's novel, 'Three Men in a Boat', reflects this
change from haulage to leisure which Taunt help establish through his photographs, books
and illustrated lectures.
Photographing the river, or indeed anywhere, in the 1860's was an extremely complex task.
The wet collodion process, invented by Frederick Scott Archer, was the best means to capture
negative images on glass until the end of the 1870s and required the plates to be prepared,
exposed and processed while the emulsion was still damp. The process required Taunt to row
his skiff to a location, set up his dark tent, set up his camera and tripod, sensitise and coat the
glass plate, immediately make the two or three second exposures, develop and fix the images,
wash them in river water, dry them and then row back to his lodgings or set up camp with his
assistants. Henry Taunt was at the cutting edge of Victorian location photographic
technology.
In Henry Taunt's life-time the population of Oxford grew from around 24,000 to 57,000. It
was a period of momentus change of which Taunt was there to document. Brought up in St.
Ebbe's, he had a real interest in recording the less picturesque corners of Oxford; as a
commercial photographer proud of his city, he also responded to the growing demand for
photographs and later postcard views of Oxford's architectural treasures.
A prolific local historian, he published over 50 books on Oxford and its surrounding area.
Interestingly Taunt was well aware of the value of his work as a historical record: "All
photographs have some limited historical value; those taken today will many of them be much
wanted in fifty years time" (1918, quoted in S Read, Berkshire in Camera). In 1893 he was
elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, possibly in belated recognition of his New
Map of the Thames first published 20 years earlier.
Taunt dedicated his life to photography, but his numerous publications demonstrate his varied
interests. He was typical self made Victorian, rising from humble begginings to become a true
entrepreneur. A brilliant self-publicist and showman, he gave his occupation in the 1891
census, while resident in Broad Street as 'Artist in water colours, photographer, author,
designer, lecturer, lantern-slide maker, picture-frame maker, gold-blocker and printer,
publisher, mount cutter, ornmamental card maker, entertainer, gilder'
Glossary of Terms
Albumen paper, called so because it was prepared with egg whites, became the most popular
printing material after its invention in 1850 by Louis-Desire Blanquart-Evrard and it remained
in general use until about 1895. The paper was coated in egg white that was dissolved in
potassium bromide and acetic acid. When dry the paper was floated in a solution of silver
nitrate and then dried. It could be bought partly prepared, i.e. coated with a thin film of white
of egg and was then sensitized with silver nitrate solution by the photographer. Manufacturers
sold readied coated paper. The number of eggs being used by albumen paper manufactures
was enormous; girls in factories did nothing all day but separate the whites from the yolks. It
was stated that the Dresden Albumizing Company, the largest in the world, used 60,000 eggs
a day (Newhall 196).

Prints on albumen paper were made by contact printing negatives. After the paper had been
exposed and developed it was toned a rich gold brown in gold chloride and then fixed in
hypochloride. Toning with chloride of gold checked fading and produced a sepia effect,
avoiding the unattractive reddening to which the paper was prone. The popularity of this
paper is demonstrated in the work in this catalogue as the majority of the prints in this show
are albumen prints. (Phaidon.1997)
Gelatin silver print, The standard contemporary monochrome print. The paper, first
introduced in 1882, is treated with the same process as the gelatin dry-plate process.
Following the introduction of the gelatin silver print in 1882, the demand for albumen prints
slowed down and by 1895 they had been replaced by this faster and more flexible method of
printing.
Bibliography
Diprose, Graham and Jeff Robins. The River Thames Revisited: In the Footsteps of Henry
Taunt. Francis Lincoln Limited, 2007.
Graham, Malcolm. Henry Taunt of Oxford: A Victorian Photographer. The Oxford Illustrated
Press, 1973.
Graham, Malcolm. “Oxford in the 1850’s: Reminiscences of Henry Taunt.” Topoxon, vol.
18, pages 11-18, 1973.
Jeffery, Ian. The Photography Book. Phaidon Press Ltd, 2000.
Newhall, Beaumont. The History of Photography. The Musuem of Modern Art, 1982.
Williams, Val and Susan Bright. How We Are Photographing Britain: From the 1840s to the
Present, Tate Publishing, 2007.
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