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Unidentified Maker (French)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Paris
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Album of Views of street scenes and monuments of Paris

ca. 1895
18 albumen photographs
28 x 38 cm. (album)
Gift of 3M Company: ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley
GEH NEG: 50478
77:0276:0000

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Degas' Visual Environment", US, NY, Rochester October 26, 2002 - January 5, 2003.//

INSCRIPTION: [each page has letterpress captions and borders] inside cover (pencil): Mrs. Matthew Gill Jr. from her first husband to his wife Elizabeth May Everhart (Gill)

FRAME: covered in red cloth, stamped with gold

NOTES: An album of 18 albumen photographs, approximately 20.5 x 27.5 cm. mounted on heavy boards edged in gold. Each page has captions in French and decorative borders in letterpress. Views include major streets, heavily populated, as well as the well known monuments and architecture. The inclusion of the image of the Palais du Trocadéro and the presence of the Eiffel Tower [from the Paris Exposition of 1889] suggest a late 19th Century date for this album, although it is possible that some of the photographs, none by identified photographers, may be earlier. Album is in good condition, covered in red cloth with title stamped in gold. 28 x 38 cm. Catalogued 9/02 JRS

SUBJECTS:
street scene
architecture, monument

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