JEAN GEISER and others

Algerian views and portrait studies, circa 1875

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JEAN GEISER and others
Algerian views and portrait studies, circa 1875
Album containing ninety-three albumen prints, one trimmed to oval and mounted as frontispiece, 4½ x 3¼ in., other sizes from carte-de-visite-size to 10 x 7½ in. or the reverse, variously mounted, the majority titled in pencil on mounts, half maroon morocco, oblong 4to.; with two photographs loosely inserted including a cabinet card portrait with photographer's printed credit Jean Geiser on mount.

Provenance

Colonel H.A. Barclay C.V.O., grandfather of the present owner; thence by descent.

Lot Essay

A personal album containing views around Algiers including interior and exterior views of the Governor's Palace, tombs of Arab Chiefs, architectural studies of mosques, street views, plant and tree studies; images of camels and camps; portraits of an Algerian lady, 'An Inhabitant of Blidah' (illus.), Arab Ali-Sheriff, Ali-Bey, 'Negress & Arab female'; and several costume studies of women and children including four of Colonel Barclay dressed in traditional Arab dress, one of which is a duplicate of the cabinet card by Jean Geiser.

Colonel Barclay went to Algeria in his twenties to shoot lions.

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