"Bric à brac", or, Some photoprints illustrating art objects at Gower Lodge, Windsor
A photoprint album issued in London in 1888 by Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower, documenting art objects at his residence Gower Lodge in Windsor for a private, connoisseur audience. The four plates show pencil and chalk portraits of fashionably dressed women, reproduced as soft grey photographic prints within oval vignettes on cream mounts. A designer might take from them the oval vignette framing, the powdered hairstyles and lace-trimmed bodices of the late eighteenth century, and the tonal range of graphite and chalk drawing.
