The Christchurch Album of Photographs
We are delighted to be able to announce the publication of an album of photographs by Frederick Rolfe Baron Corvo, discovered among the collection of the late Donald Weeks and never before published.
At the beginning of the 1890s Frederick Rolfe returned from Italy and found a temporary home in Christchurch, Dorset. Here, on the south coast of England, among a small coterie of artists, writers and photographers, Rolfe indulged his own passions for painting and photography. He was friendly with the Joseph Gleeson-White, a well respected art critic, editor and designer who went on to be highly influential among the artists of the 1890s period. The story of Rolfe’s relationship with the whole Gleeson-White family is told in all three of his biographies. It is chiefly this family that features among the photos in this album and in particular young Eric White both nude and ‘draped’ in classical attire. The collection includes also a number of rather less formal portraits of the family.
Twenty-three photographs are reproduced at their original size on twelve 7” x 5” sheets of high-quality photographic paper and two more images, both male nudes, of slightly less certain attribution, take the total of sheets to 14. These are enclosed in a glassine pocket and inserted into a custom-made envelope along with a sheet of explanation and key to the images. 70 sets have been printed and individually numbered.
£22.99
by Frederick Rolfe,
