Author:
[Victorian Scottish silhouette portraits; Solomon Caesar Malan; Admiral Robert Wauchope; Gen. Sir John Slade;Maj. Montagu Hamilton Dowbiggin; Gen. Edward Bannerman Ramsay; Admiral Sir Houston Stewart]
Publication details:
One (loose) dated from Geneva in 1847; the others dating from the 1850s and 1860s.
All the silhouettes are cut from black card, and all but one are head and shoulder portraits. 52 are laid down on the rectos of the 17 leaves of a landscape 8vo (23 x 14 cm.) notebook of Whatman paper, stitched with grey wraps. They range from two to eight silhouettes to a page, and with the silhouettes ranging in height from 5.5 cm. to 10 cm. Two others are loosely inserted within makeshift mounts on the last leaf. Two more silhouettes are loosely inserted: the first (9 cm.
