4306 - 4510 FINE ARTS - PHOTOGRAPHS
- Some wrinking; pencil scribblings in outer blank corners; small crease in left margin.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLIV.
= Scene identified as "Tibet" on the passepartout. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLIV.
Bonfils, F. (1831-1885). "Jerusalem Porte Saint-Étienne". Albumen print, ±1870, 21,5x28 cm., "Bonfils", titled and numb. "273" in the plate (some vague folds and creases). - AND 2 others similar: F. BONFILS, "Montaigne de la Quarantaine - Mount of Tempation" (22,5x28 cm., numb. "344" in the plate) and ANONYMOUS, "The Dutchman's Cap - The Collonade. Staffa" (11,5x19,7 cm., numb. "1110" and monogrammed "J.V." in the plate).
= Portrait of a father by his son.
- Trifle foxed.
= From the series Miserere. With annotation in pencil: "Situatie Sevilla Heilige Week 1977".
AND 2 others by the same from the same series, both with photographer's stamp on verso.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLV.
= Rich collection, incl. a small number of cartes-de-visite size photographs of street scenes in various countries. Also incl. some sl. more freely posed cartes-de-visite.
- Occas. sm. imperfections/ defects.
= Some photographers: G. Kendall (Plaistow); Cobb & Keir (Woolwich); Monsieur Louis (London); W. & S. Stuart (ibid.); W. Boughton & Sons (Lowestoft) and John Rayne (Maldon).
- Faded; a few (small) white stains.
AND 3 other albumen prints of Ceylon women, ±1880.