Set of 37 of 41 cards, lacking Nos. 14, 30. 37, and 39. Each photograph hand-colored, many very elaborately and in great detail. Photographs approx. 16.5x11 cm (6½x4¼"), housed in a period red cloth-covered clamshell box with marbled-paper interior. 

A handsome visual souvenir of Pompeii from the nineteenth century.

In discussing where the British tourist could best procure “views of Naples, Pompeii, Vesuvius, &c. and of statues in the museum,” guidebook writer John Murray pointed the interested traveler to “Grillet's, No 6 Chiatamone, whose carte de visite portraits, one fr each, especially of ladies, executed under the direction of Miss Lejeune, a talented English artist, are perhaps unrivaled as are Grillet's photographic views on glass for the stereoscope of the monuments about Naples and Rome, including the works of art in the museums of the Vatican and Capitol and views of Switzerland” (A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy, Sixth ed. 1868, p.86).