Lot Essay
The album includes fine views of Rio de Janeiro and Bahia by Ferrez, Leuzinger and others, as well as views of the Leopoldina colony, plantation landscapes and the slave workforce.
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Marc Ferrez (1843-1923), Albert Frisch (c.1840-after 1905), Georges Leuzinger (1813-1892) and others, Photographers
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an album containing 44 photographs, mounted on card leaves, including 6 views of Rio by Ferrez mounted on the photographer's original supports, several with photographer's credits in the plate, thirteen titled or inscribed on the mounts
albumen prints
7 x 9¼in. (17.8 x 23.5cm.) and smaller
the panorama of Rio 4½ x 14½in. (11.4 x 36.8cm.)
oblong 2°, contemporary red pebble-grained cloth, covers with ornate border in blind, upper cover lettered in gilt 'BRESIL' (sometime rebacked, recent white glazed endpapers, edges to cover reinforced, head and tail of spine repaired)
Brésil
an album containing 44 photographs, mounted on card leaves, including 6 views of Rio by Ferrez mounted on the photographer's original supports, several with photographer's credits in the plate, thirteen titled or inscribed on the mounts
albumen prints
7 x 9¼in. (17.8 x 23.5cm.) and smaller
the panorama of Rio 4½ x 14½in. (11.4 x 36.8cm.)
oblong 2°, contemporary red pebble-grained cloth, covers with ornate border in blind, upper cover lettered in gilt 'BRESIL' (sometime rebacked, recent white glazed endpapers, edges to cover reinforced, head and tail of spine repaired)
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