4892 - 5055 FINE ARTS - PHOTOGRAPHS
- Second photograph w.horizontal fold in lower part. = Nice, lively streetscenes.
AND 5 other miscell. late 19th/ 20th cent. photographs.
- One entirely intact; the rest lacks lid or entire case.
- Ex-libris stamp on first blank. Bookblock loose, sl. stained and lower edges sl. worn/ frayed. Contents fine.
= Private album of a trip to the US, dated 1919, mostly containing images of New York (and surroundings), incl. a few images of the German "Helmet Pyramid" on Park Avenue, made of some 12.000 spiked Pickelhauben of captured Germans.
= Nice collection of buildings, monuments, gates and facades (i.a. Portuguese Synagogue, Rasphuispoortje, Huis Bartolotti, Raepenhofje), but also including street- and canal views with people (i.a. Varkenssluis, Korte Nieuwendijk, Kalverstraat, Prinsengracht). With on verso a description of the architectural history of the building/ monument etc.
ADDED: a scrapbook on Amsterdam (20th cent.).
- Some vague waterstains.
- Two lvs. blindst. dam.; occas. trifle foxed; some sm. creases and marginal tears.
= The photographer and artist Heinen was active as decoration painter in Amsterdam. Many of his wallpaintings are lost now. The spectacular views, many taken from a high vantage point, i.a. show the Rijksmuseum, Centraal Station, Binnen-Amstel and O.Z. Voorburgwal.
= The building was designed by H.J. Wigman probably for the Amsterdam businessman H.G. Koster. The interior views show an eclectic style of art nouveau design furniture, Asian and contemporary art (i.a. a print by Marius Bauer).
- Sl. foxed. = Images of the festivities surrounding Queen Wilhelmina's coronation.
"Souvenir d'Amsterdam". Souvenir leporello containing 12 mounted albumen prints, each 9,5x13 cm., in orig. gilt dec. cl. (unif. w. the preceding), ibid., idem, ±1898.
= The canopy of the Central Station is still unfinished.
= Squire Henry Pauw van Wieldrecht (1863-1912) was a Dutch amateur photographer and traveller. He visited Spain in 1902.
AND 1 other photograph, unrelated.
- All three photographs w. identification of the photographer in ballpoint on verso.
= Two prints w. "Archive A B" [B encircled in pencil] stamped on verso; the first mentioned print with "No publishing Archive only" stamped on verso.
= I.a. ±40 views of Aruba and Curaçao, probably taken by a Dutch business man. I.a. views of a wedding of a local Aruban couple, woman selling fruit and vegetables, a building site. And ±20 photographs of a family in The Hague, i.a. a school class, children and other family portraits.
= The larger part identified on verso (French, Dutch, German and American). Photographs showing i.a. the Douglas DC-4 (Sabena) and DC-2 (Uiver), both of which caused a fatal plane crash, the Air Force's K-24 aerial night photos of NYC (±1944) and J.E. Caldwell's mysterious flying saucer (±1949). Also includes a (reversal film) series of ESA atronauts (1996), i.a. with W. Ockels, U. Merbold and J.-F. Clervoy. Provenance: Automobielmuseum Driebergen (stamp on verso of several photographs).
= R. Campert, Céline van Balen (2002), p.36. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXV.