NAYA, NAYA & SCHOEFFT, CALDESI & MONTECCHI, MACPHERSON, HIRSCH, COSTANTIN, THE PHOTOGALVANOGRAPHIC CO. and others

Italy, Greece, Boer War and art reproductions, circa 1850s - 1902

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NAYA, NAYA & SCHOEFFT, CALDESI & MONTECCHI, MACPHERSON, HIRSCH, COSTANTIN, THE PHOTOGALVANOGRAPHIC CO. and others
Italy, Greece, Boer War and art reproductions, circa 1850s - 1902
Thirty-four photographs, albumen prints, the majority 10¾ x 13¾ in. or larger, variously mounted and several with photographers' credits; and ten gelatin silver prints, each approx. 6 x 8½ in., titled in the negatives. (44)

Literature

Hamber, A Higher Branch of the Art, p. 170.

Lot Essay

Including views in Venice (one signed Naya & Schoefft showing the Grand Canal at carnival time), Rome and Athens (five, probably all Costantin), a photogalvanograph of the Venus de Milo from a negative by Baldus, and ten studies around Spion Kop and other Boer War sites.

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