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    Sale 7651

    Photographs

    London, South Kensington

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    1 May 1997

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    Lot 330

    Nadar, Etienne Carjat and others

    Price realised

    GBP 862

    Estimate

    GBP 300 - GBP 400

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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)

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

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


    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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