ADOLPHE BRAUN (1812-77)

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ADOLPHE BRAUN (1812-77)

'Fleurs Photographiées de Adolphe Braun à Dornach (Ht. Rhin)', mid 1850s

Album of fifty albumen prints, two apparently varnished, approx. 7 x 9½ in. to approx. 9 x 11 in., two trimmed oval, the others with rounded corners, mounted one per page, pages numbered in sequence 51 - 100 in pencil, paper supplier's printed label and printed bookplate of Daniel Drew inside upper cover, full cloth, embossed title and credit on upper cover, oblong folio.

Lot Essay

Adolphe Braun took up photography in 1853 for the specific purpose of providing flower subjects as reference material for artists. By 1854 he had produced an album of three hundred floral still-life studies. After this period his work tended to concentrate on landscape, portraits, architecture and art reproduction.

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