VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS

A collection of tintype portraits of dogs and of their owners, circa 1860s-80s

Twenty-three photographs, comprising one quarter-plate, three sixth-plate and two ninth-plate tintypes, each in gilt metal mount; one cabinet-size and four carte-de-visite-size tintypes, each in card mount, one with printed photographer's credit ...Louis Pichler, Baden..; one 5 x 4 in. and eleven carte-de-visite-size unmounted tintypes. (24)

Literature

Scheid, Dogs in Focus, pl. nos. 36 (right), 37, 38 and 39

Lot Essay

Nine portraits of dogs including a dalmation, a pug and a Staffordshire bull terrier, the others portraits with owners including a lady with a poodle, a barefoot boy with a pug, a boy with a large dog holding a staff, a hunter with a pair of hounds, and others.

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