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Athens and Constantinople -- 72 Large Format Photos -- Wide Variety Good Tone
réf. 18941110Leather bound album with 72 large format albumen photographs mounted dos-a-dos on tab-mounted card leaves; leaves measure 10.5 x 14 inches 268 X 322 mm images all measure approximately 8 x 10 inches 200 x 250 mm; album cover detached back strip perished; cards are a little wavy as is often the case with albumen photos; images are all clear with good tone. Also included is a typescript list of the photos with brief descriptions by the collector who purchased them on tour May and June 1890. The first twenty-four photos are from Greece all taken in Athens with the exception of a view of the port of Piraeus and two of Greeks in native dress. A few are signed "Rhomaides" and a few others appear to have the small Rhomaides credit scratched from the plate. The Benaki Musuem and the historical collections of the National Bank of Greece identify ten of the photos as the work of Constantine and Aristotle Romaidis Rhomaides probably the most prolific Greek photographers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; three other photos have either the Rhomaides name or its ghost. The remaining forty-eight are scenes in Constantinople Istanbul and the neighboring shores of the Bosporus. All but seven are signed as the work of Pascal Sebah 1823-1886 or that of his successor Policarpe Joaillier 1848-1904 working as Sebah and Joaillier. hardcover
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