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ANDERSON, MACPHERSON, ECKERT, BACKHOUSE, MELCHION, MARVILLE, SOMMER, MASSARI AND OTHERS

Italian, Spanish and other European architecture and a few portraits, early 1850s and later

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ANDERSON, MACPHERSON, ECKERT, BACKHOUSE, MELCHION, MARVILLE, SOMMER, MASSARI AND OTHERS
Italian, Spanish and other European architecture and a few portraits, early 1850s and later
Approx. fifty photographs, salt prints and albumen prints, various sizes to approx. 18¾ x 14½ in., several with photographers' credits in the negatives or on mounts, the majority mounted (a lot)

Literature

Miraglia et al, Giorgio Sommer in Italien Fotografien 1857-1888, p. 106 (illus.)

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Lot Essay

Five Venice and Mediterranean views, two annotated by A. Backhouse; two good genre groups by Sommer; Rome architecture and sculpture by MacPherson and others; twelve early Spanish architectural studies, one signed in the negative Massari; two copies of architectural drawings by Marville; an early portrait titled Pfeiffer and attributed to Gutekunst; two large construction studies of grand architectural projects and others.

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