Dominic Winter

727* Zimbabwe. An album of views of Victoria Falls and locality,
circa 1905, the first twenty-two with printed captions beneath and
identified by a printed photographer’s list loosely inserted as the
work of L. Pedrotti, Bulawayo, the final fifteen uncaptioned platinum
prints also mounted one to a page and back to back throughout, all
approximately 21 x 29cm and similar sizes, hand-coloured printed
sketch plan of Victoria Falls mounted to front pastedown (20 x
27cm), five stiff card leaves blank at rear, contemporary plain
buckram, rubbed, folio
The printed list offers twenty-seven views of Victoria Falls by Pedrotti as
platinotype prints, this album containing all but numbers 13a, 15, 18, 19 & 20.
(1) £150-200
Lot 727
MARCUS AND GILBERT ADAMS PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE
(Arthur) Walton Adams (1842-1934) was a photographer who worked in Southampton and Reading. He was the co-inventor of the dryplate
process. His son, Marcus Adams (1875-1959), established a reputation as a leading child photographer. In 1919 he joined up with
Bertram Park (1883-1972) and his wife Yvonne Gregory (1889-1970) to form the 'Three Photographers'. In 1926, Marcus Adams took
first official photographs of the Duchess of York and Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Mother and Queen Elizabeth II) and continued
up to 1956 in a sitting with Princess Anne. His son, Gilbert Adams (1906-1996), assisted in his early years but later established his own
highly successful career as a photographer, specialising in photographing the ballet.
All the following lots come from the estate of Gilbert Adams’ late widow, Rosalind Thuillier. See Rosalind Thuillier, Marcus Adams,
Photographer Royal (1985).
728* Elizabeth II (Queen of the United Kingdom, born 1926). A
group of approximately 75 studio portrait photographs of the infant
Princess Elizabeth by Marcus Adams, circa 1926-30, gelatin silver
prints including many bromoil, comprising individual portraits,
multiples from the same sitting, some duplication, portraits with her
mother and father and sister, some signed and dated in pen or pencil
by Adams to lower part of image, many with wet stamps to versos,
some loose and some mounted, various sizes
(approx. 75) £200-300
729* Elizabeth II (Queen of the United Kingdom, born 1926). A
group of approximately 100 studio portrait photographs of the young
Princess Elizabeth by Marcus Adams, circa 1930-38, gelatin silver
prints including many bromoil, comprising individual portraits,
multiples from the same sitting, some duplication, portraits with her
mother and father and sister, some signed and dated in pen or pencil
by Adams to lower part of image, many with wet stamps to versos,
some loose and some mounted, various sizes
(approx. 100) £200-300
730* Elizabeth II (Queen of the United Kingdom, born 1926). A
group of approximately 70 studio portrait photographs of the
teenage Princess Elizabeth by Marcus Adams, circa 1938-46, gelatin
silver prints including many bromoil, comprising individual portraits,
multiples from the same sitting, some duplication, portraits with her
mother and father and sister, some signed and dated in pen or pencil
by Adams to lower part of image, many with wet stamps to versos,
some loose and some mounted, various sizes
(approx. 70) £200-300
731* Margaret (Princess, Countess of Snowdon, 1930-2002). A
group of approximately 65 studio portrait photographs of the infant
Princess Margaret by Marcus Adams, early 1930s, gelatin silver
prints including many bromoil, comprising individual portraits,
multiples from the same sitting, some duplication, portraits with her
mother and father and sister, some signed and dated in pen or pencil
by Adams to lower part of image, many with wet stamps to versos,
some loose and some mounted, various sizes
(approx. 65) £200-300
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