VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including CHARLES MARVILLE and FARNHAM MAXWELL LYTE

'Thorncote Scrap Book', 1850s-circa 1890s

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including CHARLES MARVILLE and FARNHAM MAXWELL LYTE
'Thorncote Scrap Book', 1850s-circa 1890s
Album containing fifty-nine albumen prints and four salt prints, sizes from carte-de-visite to 12½ x 10 in., one inscribed Lux fecit and a few titled and numbered in the negatives, variously mounted; with a quantity of watercolours, pencil/ink sketches, engravings, printed art reproductions and newspaper clippings, printed bookplate William Sinclair mounted inside front cover, tan morocco, titled and with decorative border in gilt on front cover, g.e., folio; with a quantity of photographs and printed ephemera loosely inserted. (a lot)
Literature
Jammes, Blanquart-Evrard et les origines de l'édition photographique française, pl. nos. 312, 428 and 522.

Lot Essay

Including military portraits in India, a portrait of a man fishing, two views of Jerusalem, an architectural study of the Erechtheion temple in Athens, views around Italy and Paris including three salt print studies by Charles Marville.

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