Lot 230
Maria Elizabeth Moulton-Barrett. A family photograph album containing 120 portraits and 2 views of Westover, Isle of Wight, the family home, including a carte de visite of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her son 'Pen', seated, dated in ink 'Rome 1860', stamped verso 'D'Alessandri Fres. Rome', 57 x 99mm, another without 'Pen', standing, dated in ink 'May 27, 1861' and stamped recto 'Flli D'Alessandri Roma, 65 Babuino', 61 x 101mm, of Robert Browning, standing, stamped verso 'D'Alessandri Fres Rome', 65 x 106mm, another half-length, inscribed in ink 'Robert Browning February '65', 62 x 100mm, of Robert Barrett Browning, aged c.20, seated, inscribed verso 'Robert Barrett Browning, Oxford, May 1869', 62 x 100mm, another, aged c.12, on horseback, inscribed 'Rome, End of May, 1861', 72 x 115mm, and others of Octavius Moulton-Barrett, Amelia Moulton-Barrett, Robert Browning Senior, Alfred Moulton-Barrett, and the extended family of Maria Elizabeth Moulton-Barrett, many captioned on mount or verso, 46pp., original oak boards, carved with leaf design, a central panel with the initials M.E.M.B., 4to
The captions on the photographs from Rome appear to be in the hand of Robert Browning.
