‎ZEGWAARD, Baron Joseph de - Ridder SCHOUTHEDE LEGRELLE - BORREKENS - [ ] PORTRAIT ALBUM with original photographs :‎
‎Oblong album, 25 x 34 cm, with 56 leaves containing 117 mounted photographs mostly in the size 14 x 10 cm, or slightly larger.‎

‎" Portraits; The portraits depict members of a wealthy Belgian-French family around the end of the 19th century. On one of the pictures one deciphers the names of Baron Joseph de Zegwaard, Knight Schouthede, Legrelle (-Borrekens).These names are written on a ribbon attached to a birth-gift bouquet. Binding; Full blue morocco binding, on the front-cover in large blind-tooled letters;raits. Back with 6 raised bands. Endpapers in blue watered silk, first and last endpaper mounted in a gilt ornamental border. Signed on the second leaf; Giraudon, Paris, rue Thérèse, Avenue de l'Opéra. Apart from a small restauration at one of the hinge a nice binding. Photograph portrait album of a rich family of Belgian-French nobility. Although none of the pictures are signed some of them have a real artistic merit. Quite a number of the photographs offer also a great interest for the elaborate costumes worn by the sitters.."‎

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