Temple Hindou Moderne à Odeypour, (hindouston)

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BARON ALEXIS DE LAGRANGE
Temple Hindou Moderne à Odeypour, (hindouston)
Blanquart-Evrard process print from waxed paper negative. Circa 1849-51. Album Photographique de l'Artiste et de l'Amateur blindstamp, printed photographer's and printer's credits, title and plate number, numbered 18 in pencil on mount. Ruled in gilt.
8 3/8 x 7in. (21.2 x 17.8cm.)

Provenance

As in lot 20.

Literature

See: Jammes, Blanquart-Evrard et les Origines de l'Édition Photographique Française, p. 138, pl. 18.

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Lot Essay

The Frenchman de Lagrange was one of the earliest western photogaphers to travel to India, where he used the wet paper negative process invented by Blanquart-Evrard. This and the following four lots were inlcuded in Album Photographique de l'Artiste et de l'Amateur, an early photographically-illustrated book published by Blanquart-Evrard in 1851.

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