£25
Photographer unknown. An unusual group of photographs of Mr and Mrs William Ormiston Callender and ten of their thirteen children, albumen print, oval, laid down on ? mount, each photograph in embossed oval silk paper frame, hanging from a scarlet ribbon entwined with flowers, centred by the date 1872, 42 x 52cm
William Ormiston Callender (1827-1908) from Leith, Edinburgh, a bitumen manufacturer employing twenty hands, married Jean Marshall (1828-1872). The couple's first child Thomas was born in 1855 and their thirteenth, Edward, in 1882 when his mother would have been 55 years old
Some slightly spotted and browned with age, the images good, the flowers colourful
In original gilt mount and an early gilt frame
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