Live Auction 891319th and 20th Century Photographs
SILVY, REJLANDER, COCHET, MAYALL, ABDULLAH FRÈRES AND OTHERS
Lot 45

SILVY, REJLANDER, COCHET, MAYALL, ABDULLAH FRÈRES AND OTHERS

Criminals, ethnographic portraits and others, 1860s - circa 1880s

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GBP 1,410

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SILVY, REJLANDER, COCHET, MAYALL, ABDULLAH FRÈRES AND OTHERS
Criminals, ethnographic portraits and others, 1860s - circa 1880s
A collection of cartes-de-visite comprising: one small disbound album of eighty-eight photographs, sitters identified by reference number and dates (of arrest?) in ink on mounts; two cartes-de-visite with printed credits ...O. G. Rejlander; ten with printed credits Abdullah Frères, Phot., seven with credit Camille Silvy, one with credit Kimberley Studio, New Rush. Diamond Fields. (a lot)

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A diverse selection of carte-de-visite photographs including a part album of portraits of men and women, probably criminals; eight portraits by Silvy; two by Rejlander, one of an infant, the other of two men wrestling, five Zulu subjects with detailed text on reverse describing sitters; ten Turkish portraits including an orthodox priest; two American views and others.