THE AMATUER PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION, BISSON FRÈRES and others

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THE AMATUER PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION, BISSON FRÈRES and others

Landscape, portrait, genre, military and architectural photographs, early 1860s

Twenty-nine photographs comprising: two salt prints, each approx. 15 x 10½ in., with facsimile signature Bisson Frères, mounted on album leaves; and twenty-seven albumen prints, various sizes from approx. 6 3/8 x 4¾ in. to 11¼ x 17½ in., three trimmed oval, four with arched tops, the majority mounted on album leaves, titled and with occasional credits in pencil on mounts, eighteen with double pencil reference number relating to A.P.A. identification system on mounts.
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Lot Essay

Photographers have been identified, where possible, as follows: Mr. Church - "On the Firth near Stirling"
Lt. Col. Plaissin - Mediterranean street vendor
C. R. Grice - Mediterranean peasant woman with baskets
Lt. Col. J. H. Shakespeare - "Corfu from the Island of Vito with H. M. Ships Agamemnon Casar and James Watt" (Prize picture 1862)
H. J. V. Ames - "Fishing Party on the Coquet, Northumberland" (Prize picture 1862)
Earl of Caithness - "Hoar Frost A Park Scene" (Prize picture 1862)
Maj. F. Gresley - "The Banks of the Severn" (Prize picture)

For other photographs by members of the Amateur Photographic Association see also lot nos. 93 and 135.

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