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Subjects include odalisques, pipe-smokers, musicians, beggars, women with children, women carrying vessels, a shoe-shiner, and a shop-keeper.
Algerian, Spanish and other Mediterranean portraits, costume studies, occupational studies and views, 1860s
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PORTIER, REINACK, GEISER, ALARY & GEISER, MOUTTET and BERTHOMIER
Algerian, Spanish and other Mediterranean portraits, costume studies, occupational studies and views, 1860s
Album containing 173 cartes-de-visite, twenty-one hand-tinted, the majority with photographer's printed credit on mounts or on verso, loosely inserted in pre-cut window mounts with gilt borders, occasional titles and photographer's credits in pencil in a later hand on mounts, embossed green morocco, gilt clasps (one clasp missing and one broken), g.e., 4to.; with four cabinet card portraits loosely inserted. (5)
Algerian, Spanish and other Mediterranean portraits, costume studies, occupational studies and views, 1860s
Album containing 173 cartes-de-visite, twenty-one hand-tinted, the majority with photographer's printed credit on mounts or on verso, loosely inserted in pre-cut window mounts with gilt borders, occasional titles and photographer's credits in pencil in a later hand on mounts, embossed green morocco, gilt clasps (one clasp missing and one broken), g.e., 4to.; with four cabinet card portraits loosely inserted. (5)