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Front cover The Temple of Rameses II at Abu Simbel, from the autochrome collection of Lionel de Rothschild (1882‒1942). 2007 marks the centenary of the public availability of the autochrome, which was the first commercially viable and successful colour process. Lionel was a keen and talented photographer whose collection of plates, a gift to The Rothschild Archive from his family, is one of the most extensive to survive in the UK. On his return from an Italian honeymoon, Lionel made a speech of thanks for their wedding gift to his parliamentary constituents of Mid Bucks revealing his dedication to his hobby and his eagerness to share its results with others: I must thank you for a very pleasant four weeks’ holiday which I have had in Italy, but I want to tell you that during those four weeks I was not idle, for I managed to take a camera with me, and I took a great many coloured photographs. If you will allow me once more to bring my lantern down to Mid Bucks to some of the villages where I spent many happy evenings lecturing on Egypt, I may perhaps be able to show some photographs of ancient Rome to you. (Bucks Herald 30 November 1912) An article by Victor Gray about the collection appears in this Review on page 14. issn: 1748-9148 (Print) issn: 1748-9156 (Online)
Contents Introduction 7 Eric de Rothschild Review of the year’s work 8 Melanie Aspey The colours of another world 14 Victor Gray Takahashi Korekiyo, the Rothschilds and 20 the Russo-Japanese War, 1904–1907 Richard Smethurst Butlers and boardrooms: 26 Alfred de Rothschild as collector and connoisseur Jonathan Conlin Egyptian finances in the nineteenth century: 34 a Rothschild perspective Caroline Shaw Alexander Herzen and James de Rothschild 39 Derek Offord ‘Si constante et si sûre’: 48 testimonies of Rothschild friendships Melanie Aspey Principal acquisitions 54 1 April 2005 – 31 March 2006
- Page 1: The Rothschild Archive review of th
- Page 5: The Rothschild Archive Trust Truste
- Page 10: Review of the year’s work Melanie
- Page 13 and 14: From Henri de Rothschild La lignée
- Page 15 and 16: A hitherto unknown photographic ima
- Page 17 and 18: A portrait of Lionel de Rothschild
- Page 19 and 20: Below Views of the gardens at Ascot
- Page 21 and 22: A tiger, from Lionel’s collection
- Page 23 and 24: Below Extract from the visitors’
- Page 25 and 26: have come to us because they seem t
- Page 27 and 28: On 6 March 1907, Arthur J. Fraser o
- Page 30 and 31: The Bampfylde Room at Halton, Alfre
- Page 32 and 33: professional sport and the gossip c
- Page 34 and 35: to enthusiasm, generosity and inven
- Page 36 and 37: Egyptian finances in the nineteenth
- Page 38 and 39: Receipt from the Bank of Alexandria
- Page 40 and 41: of their investments. At the insist
- Page 42 and 43: 40 writings by the demonisation of
- Page 44 and 45: thirteen tranches of 6 per cent Uni
- Page 46 and 47: 44 francs’ worth of 5 per cent Pi
- Page 48 and 49: Alexander Herzen in later years. am
- Page 50: ‘Si constante et si sûre’: tes
- Page 53 and 54: Letter to James de Rothschild from
- Page 55 and 56: The services that the Rothschild fa
Front cover<br />
<strong>The</strong> Temple of Rameses II at Abu Simbel,<br />
from the autochrome collection of Lionel<br />
de <strong>Rothschild</strong> (1882‒1942).<br />
2007 marks the centenary of the public<br />
availability of the autochrome, which was the<br />
first commercially viable and successful colour<br />
process. Lionel was a keen and talented<br />
photographer whose collection of plates, a gift<br />
to <strong>The</strong> <strong>Rothschild</strong> <strong>Archive</strong> from his family, is<br />
one of the most extensive to survive in the UK.<br />
On his return from an Italian honeymoon,<br />
Lionel made a speech of thanks for their<br />
wedding gift to his parliamentary constituents<br />
of Mid Bucks revealing his dedication to his<br />
hobby and his eagerness to share its results<br />
with others:<br />
I must thank you for a very pleasant four<br />
weeks’ holiday which I have had in Italy,<br />
but I want to tell you that during those<br />
four weeks I was not idle, for I managed<br />
to take a camera with me, and I took a<br />
great many coloured photographs. If<br />
you will allow me once more to bring my<br />
lantern down to Mid Bucks to some of<br />
the villages where I spent many happy<br />
evenings lecturing on Egypt, I may perhaps<br />
be able to show some photographs of<br />
ancient Rome to you. (Bucks Herald<br />
30 November 1912)<br />
An article by Victor Gray about the collection<br />
appears in this Review on page 14.<br />
issn: 1748-9148 (Print)<br />
issn: 1748-9156 (Online)
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