AUGUST SALZMANN (1824-1872) Église de Ste. Marie La Grande, Jérusalem. Salted paper print from a calotype negative, the image measuring 9x12 7/8 inches (23x32.7 cm.), the Blanquart-Evrard mount 17x24 1/4 inches (43.2x61.6 cm.), with Salzmann's printed credit, the title, and the editors' and publisher's credits on mount recto. 1854
Salzmann traveled to the Middle East to make some of the earliest images of the Holy Land. He perfected a method of printing salted paper that reduced fading.
