Nadar, Etienne Carjat and others

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Nadar, Etienne Carjat and others
Portraits of celebrities, 1850s-60s, printed circa 1870s-80s
Twenty-one albumen copy prints, each approx. 5¼ x 3¾ in., mounted on paper, all but one mount trimmed, identified in ink on mounts. (21)

Literature

Gernsheim, The History of Photography, pl. nos. 200 and 201.

Further details

See illustration

Lot Essay

Sitters are as follows: George Sand, Wilkie Collins, Rudyard Kipling, Alexander Dumas, Gioacchino Rossini, Jean M. Meissonier, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Hardy, William Gladstone and his son Herbert Gladstone, Thomas Huxley, Anthony Trollope, Charles Darwin, Longfellow, George Macdonald, Herbert Spencer, Thomas Hughes, Ernest Renan, Empress Eugénie, Ferdinand de Lesseps, and Miss Kate Greenaway.

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