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(SPIRITUALISM)
Group of 5 British photographs depicting spirits
appearing before an impervious bearded man.
Albumen prints, 5
1
/
2
x4 inches (14x10.2 cm.), on
the original mounts, with a “Photographs of the
Invisible” caption label on mount verso; Richard
Boursnell and J. Evans Sterling (two London
Spiritualists) were the photographers. 1895-1896
[2,500/3,500]
The photographs were made as a record of spirit
visitations but also satirize the “absurd dogma of the
resurrection of the body.”The caption for the second
image reads, “Spirit of a lady unknown curiously
robed in flowers. Empyreal light on the sitter.”
