4892 - 5055 FINE ARTS - PHOTOGRAPHS
- Some very vague soiling in lower right corner.
Idem. "Giullia". Gelatin silver print, 30x30 cm., signed "Paul Blanca", titled, dated "2013(?)", "For Giullia" and "A.P." in silver pen.
= Rare series showing the photographer's mother covered in rose petals or holding dandilions. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXV.
AND an autograph poem about his mother.
= One of Blanca's most iconic and fragile photographs.
- Lacks tiny portion of outer blank margin of upper right corner; earlier signature by the same overwritten.
- Some scattered tiny scratches.
- One trifle soiled in right margin (just touching the image); the other lacks a sm. portion of outer blank margin.
= Harold H. Drory (1849-1918) came from a high society Belgian family from Ghent. He married the British Elisabeth Wingfield (1858-1954) in 1877. Her father Kenelm Digby Wingfield came from the extensive Wingfield family. Contains also portraits from related families, i.a. Fetherstonhaught (related through the Digby family) and the earl of Cottenham (also through the Digby family line), Cooper and Fletcher. Also a few portraits of the family related to Elisabeth''s mother Sainte Marie.
- Upper pastedown loosening; (sl.) foxed. Backcover 1 cornerpiece broken; gilding sl. worn.
= Dedicated to "den Hoogwelgeboren Heer Jonkheer H. Strick van Linschoten van Rhijnauwen, hoogheemraad van den Lekdijk Bovendams bij gelegenheid van zijn Vijfentwintig jarig Lidmaatschap van het Collegie van den Lekdijk Bovendams".
WITH a (sl. rubbed/ scratched) mounted carte-de-visite portrait, w. "Johan Herman Strick van Linschoten. 1e Luitenant der Jagers. 's Hage. Juni 1907." in pen and ink on verso.
- Trifle foxed. = Photograph by J. WATKINS (London).
AND 21 other cartes-de-visite portraits of famous people, i.a. Giuseppe Garibaldi, Otto von Bismarck, Edward VII, Adolphe Thiers, Multatuli, Nicolaas Beets and Isaac da Costa.
- Trifle foxed; upper right corner sl. bumped.
AND 4 other similar carte-de-visite portraits of Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Stephen A. Douglas and Andrew Johnson.
- Cards occas. w. small defects. The 8vo album dam.
= With 24 Belgian, 20 Dutch and 20 French cards, i.a. by J. Chrispijn (Alkmaar), Chits & Fils (The Hague), D.J. Boom (Almelo), Maison Legros (Paris), L. Valentin (Avignon), R. van Damme (Gand) and Ch. Froelich (Antwerp).
- Photograps occas. sl. rubbed.
= Some photographers: Atelier Uges (Groningen), A.D. Prummel (Veendam), Jozef M. Weber (Dordrecht), B. Bruining (Arnhem), Gerard Ch. Smeekes (Utrecht) and J. Daniëls (Appingedam).
= Some photographers: Samson & Co. (Munich), Ludwig Brade (Bremerhaven), Albert Meyer (Berlin), Herm. Henning (Frankfurt a.M.), H. Thorun (Königsberg) and Max Damm (Bad Harzburg).
= Some photographers: Barberon (Bordeaux), Gabriel Blaise (Tours), Emile Tiger & Cie. (Paris), Odinot (Nancy), F. Massip (Toulouse) and H. Thillier (Angers).
= Some photographers: A. Henneuse, J. Beff, H. Becker, A. Dandoy, Cornand & Cie and A. Neu.
ADDED: a small stack of ±250 holy pictures, 20th cent., i.a. First Communion, including many duplicates, ±50x laid down on mount.