Oct 19, 2004 - Sale 2017

Sale 2017 - Lot 48

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(PHOTOMONTAGE)
Playful album containing 93 photomontages by a South American artist, comprising 91 cartes-de-visite and 2 cabinet cards, each comprised of an original albumen photograph of a face mounted atop a color lithographic illustration of a body; with images of men and women on horseback, people playing instruments, and other comical scenes, with indiviual and group settings. Albumen prints, each with Montevideo, Chile studio credits on mounts recto/verso. Oblong 4to, mother-of-pearl morocco-backed boards, losses to covers, spine worn; clasps. 1870s