76/4368 [Fox, Caroline and family]. Album, containing a mounted portrait drawing (possibly by SAMUEL LAURENCE) of Annie Barton (brush and watercolour, 11x6,5 cm.) and 45 mounted portraits of friends and members of the family of Caroline Fox, ±1850, in orig. gilt dec. mor. album, a.e.g.

- Upper hinge broken.

= Annie Barton might refer to Susannah Barton, wife of John Sterling (1806-1844), or to her sister Anna Eleanor Barton, wife of F.D. Maurice; both were friends of Caroline Fox). Almost all photographs were made by an anonymous photographer in the early years of photography (Anthony Coningham Sterling, older brother of John Sterling, was an active amateur photographer in th 1840s); many come w. an identification of the sitters in near contemp. hand, i.a. ANNA MARIA FOX (Caroline's sister), W.M. THACKERAY (by ERNEST EDWARDS), SIR COLIN CAMPBELL LORD CLYDE (British field marshal), JANE WELSH CARLYLE (Carlyle's wife), CHARLES FOX OF TREBAH (Quaker scientist), EDWARD CONINGHAM STERLING, "Robert Fox's daughter Caroline" (a photograph of a portrait of Caroline by Samuel Laurence [different from the orig. drawing in this album), ANNA MARIA FOX ("Robert's daughter"), "Fox - brother of Robert & Charles", ARCHDEACON WILLIAM JOHN PHILPOTTS and various members of the BARTON family (i.a. Annie Barton, John Stirling's wife). The diarist Caroline Fox (1816-1897), came from an influential Quaker family in Cornwall. Her diaries (and those of her brother Barclay Fox) were posthumously published. Many members of the Fox family activily promoted various sorts of industrial, cultural and religious initiatives. They mingled with the likes of Thomas Carlyle, W.M. Thackeray, John Sterling, John Stuart Mill, F.D. Maurice and Samuel Laurence. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVIII.