Apr 18, 2013 - Sale 2311

Sale 2311 - Lot 5

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(HOLY LAND)
Group of 30 largely 19th-century photographs and prints depicting Jerusalem as well as important sites in Palestine and Syria, with an Auguste Salzmann salted paper print of Jerusalem; 14 Bonfils photographs, including The Valley of Tombs of Jehosphaphat and the Porte doree exterieur, plus the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Mosque of Omar, Grotto of Jeremy, and the Damascus Gate, photochromes of the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem and a shepherd; plus scenes by Bergheim, and others. Salted paper (one), albumen (23), photochromes (3), silver (2), and photogravure (one) prints, sizes ranging from 6 1/2x9 3/4 to 10 3/4x15 inches (16.5x24.8 to 27.3x38.1 cm.), 14 with Bonfils' signature and caption in the negative and 3 with Bergheim's. 1880s-1936