Sale 2691 - Lot 51
Price Realized: $ 1,600
Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(SCOTLAND)
An Album with 48 images by Scottish photographers James Valentine (1815-79) and George Washington Wilson (1823-93). Circa 1880s.
The album contains a rich selection of prints, including studies of landscape, local figures, and architecture; 15 are credited to Valentine and 27 to Wilson. Albumen prints, the images measuring approximately 7½x11¼ inches (19.1x28.6 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, mounted recto/verso, most with the photographers' credit, caption, and numeric notation in the negative. Oblong folio, gilt-lettered leather, worn; contents crisp and clean.
WITH--A group of 8 album pages with single images mounted recto only, all by Valentine or Wilson; 2 album pages with 8 images, most credited to Wilson, mounted recto/verso; and one album page with a total of 3 images, two credited to Valentine, mounted recto/verso. Albumen prints, the images measuring 4¼x6⅝ to 7½x11½ inches (10.8x16.8 to 19.1x29.2 cm.), and the reverse, many with a photographer's credit, caption, and numeric notation in the negative, and some with a caption in ink on the mount. Circa 1880s
Provenance
The Collection of Neil Robert Berzak
An Album with 48 images by Scottish photographers James Valentine (1815-79) and George Washington Wilson (1823-93). Circa 1880s.
The album contains a rich selection of prints, including studies of landscape, local figures, and architecture; 15 are credited to Valentine and 27 to Wilson. Albumen prints, the images measuring approximately 7½x11¼ inches (19.1x28.6 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, mounted recto/verso, most with the photographers' credit, caption, and numeric notation in the negative. Oblong folio, gilt-lettered leather, worn; contents crisp and clean.
WITH--A group of 8 album pages with single images mounted recto only, all by Valentine or Wilson; 2 album pages with 8 images, most credited to Wilson, mounted recto/verso; and one album page with a total of 3 images, two credited to Valentine, mounted recto/verso. Albumen prints, the images measuring 4¼x6⅝ to 7½x11½ inches (10.8x16.8 to 19.1x29.2 cm.), and the reverse, many with a photographer's credit, caption, and numeric notation in the negative, and some with a caption in ink on the mount. Circa 1880s
Provenance
The Collection of Neil Robert Berzak
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