Photographs (an album of): PORTUGAL. ALBUM. 1867.-19th C. (before 1868).-54 f.; 20 x 30 cm. - E.,

Photographs (an album of): PORTUGAL. ALBUM. 1867.-19th C. (before 1868).-54 f.; 20 x 30 cm. - E.,Album containing 54 sheets in which are mounted 168 pictures of the Royal Family, Court, Government, of Lisbon, Oporto and several characters of the time, including some actors and actresses of theater, members of the clergy, the military, public figures, etc. The first photographs represent members of the Royal Family, some of which date back to surely the late 1850 and beginning of 1860. The following are several photographs of monuments (Lisbon, Oporto, Coimbra, Queluz and Sintra) and members of the nobility, peers, members of Parliament, figures of the people, Spanish citizens, etc. In addition to the photographs, the album also includes several newspaper clippings, two ads of bullfighting (cards), two menus of the Grand Central Hotel, two lottery tickets (7 February 1867) and three love notes. No document date after 1867. Four pages, near the end, include a few autographs and a thank-you text signed Adelard L [opez] of Ayala (Spanish playwriter and politician at the time exiled in Lisbon): Improvisacion: A mi amigo Ferrero (?). For this document, and the fact that most of the captions are handwritten in Spanish, we are led to believe that the album will have belonged to a Spanish family, residing in Lisbon (surname Ferrero?), probably with connections to the theatre. Entire Morocco binding of the time, with frame en relief in wooden trunks, the romantic era manner; features in the higher plane the inscription: PORTUGAL - ALBUM - 1867; in the centre lower plan, the initials A. F.