A Rare Late 19thC Group of Sixty-Six Mugshot Photographs c.1900

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A Rare Late 19thC Group of Sixty-Six Mugshot Photographs c.1900Origin: EnglishPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1900Each Page: 7 x 4. 5Hailing from the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the very scarce group of sixty six doubles or 132 single mugshot or police booking photographs, from an administrative ledger, showing each male prisoner in profile and head on, via pasted down silver paper gelatin portrait photographs to eleven loose album leaves, accompanied with their alleged crime and

Around about the time this piece was made there was a revolt in Piedmont

75”The wonderfully evocative leather dog collar

and keyed in Latin

having been part of a larger composition

There is further inlaid decoration to the inner lid

practices introduced by the French Benedictines

originally being Baroque

the whole is almost entirely original and with a very fine colour and patination

which looked more stylish than the single tier base of the 1208

1950One: 17” high x 14

his stare fixed and yet somehow showing compassion

with those intended for exterior use being in marble or stone