Collard, Hippolyte-Auguste
French (active 1860s-1870s)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Paysage près du Viaduc de Chantilly
ALBUM TITLE: --Chemin de Fer du Nord, Ligne de Paris a Boulogne Vues Photographiques--, [Paris?], Baron James de Rothschild, ca. 1860, pl. 18.

ca. 1860
albumen print
23.7 x 43.0 cm.
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
GEH NEG: 13268
74:0051:0018

OLD GEH NUMBER: 69:170:18
NON-GEH NUMBER: 18

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Buerger, Janet E. --The Era of the French Calotype.-- Rochester, NY: IMP/GEH, 1982. fig. 168.//
Daniel, Malcolm R. "Edouard-Denis Baldus and the Chemin de Fer du Nord Albums.", --Image--, Vol. 35, no. 3-4, 1992. fig. 1.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 235.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "French Primitive Photography", US, PA, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, November 17 - December 28, 1969. (Traveled).//

INSCRIPTION: recto on mat- (in ink) "18. Paysage pres du Viaduc de Chantilly", verso- (in pencil) "Chemin de fer du Nord"

NOTES: This album was commissioned by Baron James de Rothschild & is numbered 16 of an edition of 25. It was presented to C. Picard (the title page bears his name and the album cover is blindstamped with his initials). According to Malcolm Daniel there are two significant variants to the Paris-Boulogne edition of the "Nord" series of albums. See --Image--, vol. 35, nos. 3-4. See 74:0051:1 for album inscriptions. Catalogued 7/92, UAM/MMD.

SUBJECTS:
architecture, railroad bridge
landscape, railroad bridge
transportation, locomotive