Oct 19, 2006 - Sale 2089

Sale 2089 - Lot 13

Price Realized: $ 3,360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
DU CAMP, MAXIME (1822-1894)
"Haute Égypte, Tombeau de Cidi, Abdallah-El-Marabout." Blanquart-Evrard process print from a calotype negative, 6 1/4x8 inches (15.9x20.3 cm.), with Du Camp's credit, the Blanquart-Evrard credit, title, and plate number "62" printed on mount recto. 1849-51

Additional Details

This print is plate 62 from "Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie."

with--Benecke, Ernest. "Nubian Slaves and Dealer." Salted paper print from a calotype negative, 8 1/2x6 3/4 inches (21.6x17.1 cm.), with the blindstamp "Ch. Marville, Paris" on mount recto and "327" in the negative. 1853.
This print was exhibited in "Focus East: Early Photography in the Near East, 1839-1885," at the Israel Museum, in July of 1988.
The Art of the French Calotype, LV (reversed).