VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including E.K. TENISON

TOPOGRAPHICAL PHOTOGRAPHS: EUROPE, THE NEAR EAST AND AFRICA

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including E.K. TENISON

Europe, 1850s-circa 1900

Two albums containing approx. 170 photographs; the majority albumen prints, six photochrome prints and nine calotypes (seven loosely inserted), sizes approx. 10¾ x 14¾ in. to 5 x 7½ in. or the reverse, one four-part panorama 6½ x 38 in., several signed and the majority titled and numbered in the negatives, four salt prints signed Tenison, three dated 1851 and 1852 and one initialled in the negative, occasional titles in pencil on mounts, half morocco (one with front cover disbound), ruled in gilt, g.e., lge. 4to. and oblong 4to. (2)

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One album contains mainly views around Italy including a four-part panoramic view of Rome. The calotypes show views around Spain. The other album includes six views of Edinburgh and several views around Greece, Turkey and Italy.

Very little is known about the photographer E. K. Tenison except that he was an active calotypist during the early 1850s. An album of his signed photographs made in 1852 and 1853 in Spain including Seville, Madrid and Andalucia was bequeathed to the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris by his Spanish wife. The album was dedicated to Sofia Valera y Alcada Galiano, the Duchess of Malakoff.

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