Albert A. Harcourt, of South Belgravia, London clearly took a very keen interest in some of the visual spectacles that were available to him, as a late Victorian gentleman-about-town. His interests extended to the plays and operettas that were on the London stage during the period, and a particular taste for the French-themed productions that were fashionable at the time, with their elaborate costumes. Ships were clearly another of Harcourt's interests: he appears to have been extremely well travelled, his adventures taking him to Cape Horn and Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe).
