CHARLES CLIFFORD, EDOUARD-DENIS BALDUS, AUGUST-ROSALIE BISSON and POMPEO POZZI

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CHARLES CLIFFORD, EDOUARD-DENIS BALDUS, AUGUST-ROSALIE BISSON and POMPEO POZZI

'Vues de l'Espagne', late 1850s - early 1860s

Album of twenty-eight albumen prints, eight apparently from waxed paper negatives, four numbered in the negatives, eleven numbered in ink on recto, eight of these with oval blindstamp C. Clifford Photographer on recto, one with blindstamp Fotografia/Pozzi/Milano, mounted one per page, one each with ink credit stamp Bisson Jeune Photog. de S. M. L'Empereur and E. Baldus, the latter a facsimile signature, twenty-four titled in pencil on mounts, tissue guards, contemporary morocco-backed blue marbled boards, titled in gilt on spine, lge. folio.
Literature
Mondéjar, Las Fuentes de la Memoria, pl. 129; Fontanella, Photography in Spain in the Nineteenth Century, p. 16, no. 15 (illus.)

Lot Essay

Titles and sizes of plates are as follows. All subjects are by or attributed to Charles Clifford except where otherwise specified.

Monastère à Escurial 10 x 16½ in.
Porte de l'Alcala à Madrid
Numbered 11 on recto 12 5/8 x 16¾ in. Cathédrale de Burgos 16½ x 12 3/8 in. Cathédrale: Portail principale
Attributed to A.-R. Bisson on basis of
identification of following plate
10¼ x 15 7/8 in. [Cathédrale: Façade principale]
Ink credit stamp of A.-R. Bisson on mount 15½ x 10 in.
Orviéda: Tour de la Cathédrale (Province
Castille)
Numbered 36 on recto 17 x 10 7/8 in.
[Eglise de Notre-Dame la Grande, Poitiers]
Stamped E. Baldus on mount 16½ x 13 in.
Salamanca - Porte de la Cathédrale 16¾ x 12½ in. Porte de la Cathédrale à Zamara
Numbered 32 on recto 16 x 10 7/8 in.
La Aduana à Barcelona (Province Andalusie)
Numbered 154 on recto 12 x 16½ in.
Cathédrale de Seville [rooftop view] 11¼ x 16¾ in. [Alcazar, Segovia] 11¼ x 16½ in. Palais Royal à Madrid
Numbered [?3] on recto 11 3/8 x 16¾ in. Porte du Collège St. Grégoire à Valladolid
Numbered 28 on recto 16¼ x 10½ in. Porte des Apôtres de la Cathédrale de Burgos
Numbered 180 on recto 16¾ x 12 3/8 in. Porte de la Cathédrale de Orihuela
Numbered 180 on recto 16 x 11 7/8 in.
Valadolid. Cour de S. Grégoire
Numbered 29 on recto 16 5/8 x 12¾ in. [Unidentified church doorway]
Numbered 122 on recto 16½ x 11½ in. Alamida avec fontaine à Malaga
Numbered 184 on recto 15½ x 11 5/8 in. Porte de la Cathédrale de Léon
Numbered 33 on recto 16½ x 12¼ in. Murcia: Porte de la Cathédrale des Apôtres
Numbered 173 in the negative 16 3/8 x 12¾ in. Porte de St. Miguel à Jerez
Numbered 176 in the negative 17 x 12 5/8 in.
Porte du Pardon à Tolède 16½ x 12¼ in. Porte de l'Eglise Sa. Maria à Barcelona 16½ x 12¾ in. Alamida à Cadix (Espagne)
Numbered 181 in the negative 10 1/8 x 17 in.
[Alhambra:] Cour des Lions et fontaine
Numbered 74 on recto 11 x 17 1/8 in.
Alhambra 16¾ x 12½ in. Bergamo Capella Coléoni
With Pozzi blindstamp on recto 14¼ x 10½ in.

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