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Cromer's Amateur
French (active ca 1840s)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Landscape with monument

ca. 1845
daguerreotype
9.3 x 6.9 cm., 1/4 plate
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
GEH NEG: 21821
69:0265:0088

NON-GEH NUMBER: 10D-335

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Buerger, Janet E. --French Daguerreotypes.-- Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. p. 205.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "French Daguerreotypy", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, February - June, 1977.//

INSCRIPTION: mount verso-(in pencil and in ink) "le L'amateur....(illegible)"

FRAME: passe par tout

NOTES: See also 70:0001:0023 for a sixth plate variant. Cromer extensively inscribed this object and attributes it to "the amateur". But, there is another plate of the same monument attributed to Sabatier-Blot (as mentioned above) in the GEH collection (76:168:124). Catalogued J. Buerger, updated 2/94, MMD.

SUBJECTS:
architecture, monument
landscape, mountains

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