5186 - 5317 FINE ARTS - PHOTOGRAPHS
= Almost all prints w. mounted typescript caption on small paper strip and many scenes are also identified on verso in pen and ink. Tilly Weissenborn was the first female photographer in the Netherlands Indies and was a friend of i.a. Maria Dermoût. She had her own studio called "Atelier "Lux" Garoet". The esthetic quality of her work was highly appreciated by Louis Couperus who ordered 20 photographs from her atelier to be included in his book Oostwaarts. The photographs include a few fine panoramic landscapes, views of the Sanatorium in Garoet, the Papandajan crater, and scenes from daily life (i.a. "Bokkengevecht op Aloon-aloon Garoet" and "Ritueel bij nieuwbouw, begraven van karbouwenkop".
AND another album w. 41 anonymous mounted gelatin silver prints, ±1910, between 11,5x16,5 and 21,5x16,5 cm., all mounted, in orig. dec. cl. album, obl. 4to (domestic family scenes (incl. a fine print of a painter holding his palet and brushes and seated with his children in his garden in front of a large painting), street scenes, some Indonesian landscapes (all unidentified) and a few photographs of a house and garden in Epe).
- All prints fine (and not faded). Mounts partly sl. worn/ dam. along extremities.
= Probably all from the same album. Views of Batavia (2x), Buitenzorg (2x) and Preanger (7x).
AND 3 gelatin silver prints of Buitenzorg, ±1910, i.a. "S lands Plantentuin Buitenzorg".
= Some subjects/ captions: group portraits of inhabitants of New Guinea, "Vier internen L. en R. heiden", "Christenmeisje in feestdo[ek?]" (title-strip sl. dam.), "Zuster Basila met 2 jongens", "Leest "De Maasbode"", "Kop met kam" and "Flores".
- All prints in fine condition. The binding sl. foxed and worn/ dam.
= Rich collection of prints, i.a. "Napoli Panorama", "Villa del Populo", "Panorama del Molo", "Via Roma" (2x), "S.a Lucia", "Villa Nazionale", "Riviera di Chiaia", "Posilipo", (Crypta Neapolitana), "Nisida", "Pozzuoli", "Tempio de Serapide", "Castello d'Ischia", "Capri Marina", "Capri Faraglioni", (View of Amalfi, with a Franciscan monk in the foreground), "Sorrento, da Capodimonte", "Casa di Tasso Sorrento", (the Spaghetti Eaters) and several albumen prints of the Vesuvius.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIII.
Idem. "Capri. Arco Naturale." Albumen print, signed and w. caption below image in blank margin of the print, 25x19,9 cm. Idem. "Lava del Vesuvio. Napoli". Albumen print, w. caption below image in blank margin of the print, 18,4x24,3 cm., laid down on mount with the blindstamp of Giorgio Sommer in lower right corner. - AND ±90 other albumen prints by the same, almost all similar size, most signed and titled below image in blank margin of the print/ or with blindstamp of Sommer on mount, i.a. "Napoli S. Lucia" (nice streetview), "Vesuvio Ferravia funicolare Stazione inferiore", "Capri. Grotta azurra" (2 men seated at the entrance of the grotto), "Atrani" and "Sorento da Capo di Monte. Napoli".
- Eight mounts with one print on recto and one on verso; incl. 17 prints of artefacts (mostly relating to Pompeii). All prints in good/ fine condition.
- Boards lvs. trifle browned along edges. Boards originally covered w. fabric but mostly worn off.
= Souvenir photographs depicting i.a. ladies dressed in kimono and traditional Japanese scenery.
= Both from the series Touch.
= Comes with Certicate of Authenticity issued by GALLERY FIFTY ONE signed by Roger Szmulewicz and stating "Provenance: directly from the artist and GALLERY FIFTY ONE". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIV.
- Lacks part of the electric cable connection on verso. = Printed in an edition of 10 copies.
- Upper hinge broken; loosening; first photograph sl. affected by silverfish; lacks index leaf. Album worn and dam.
= With calligraphed dedication leaf: "Huldeblijk aangeboden aan den Hoog Welgeboren Heer Jhr. Mr. Victor E.L. de Stuers, bij gelegenheid van zijn zeventigsten verjaardag, door het Gemeentebestuur van Maastricht zijne vaderstad, ter erkenning zijner hooge verdiensten op archaeologisch en kunstgebied, Maastricht, 20 October 1913". Signed by i.a. mayor Leopold van Oppen. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIII.
Idem. "Verzameling van Maastrichtsche gevelteekens, bijeengebracht door - ". Title printed in gold (dated 1912), index leaf and 120 mounted gelatin silver prints on 30 board lvs., all ±11x17 cm., each w. mounted printed caption, album unif. w. the preceding.
- Album dustsoiled and w. some worn spots.
= Some places: Resna, Prilep, Lake Ohrid, Saraj Château, Kostinci (graveyard), Vardine and Radsko. Apparently most photographs were taken by (a) German soldier(s) and many show soldiers and officers at rest near their barracks or headquarters. Quite a few also show local people, occas. in local costume. Also including a fine (unidentified) panorama consisting of 9 attached photographs (total size 11x136 cm.).
= From the "X Portfolio" containing graphic images of the gay SM underground scene in 1970s New York. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIV.
- Incl. a few reprints.
= Varied collection: the 2 largest prints and some of the smaller ones show a view of the Popocatépetl, landscapes (incl. 2 fine albumen prints (1x small size) of a railroad bridge across a river), 4 albumen prints by A. BRIQUET (published in the series "Vistas. Americanas") and 3 albumen prints w. (street)views in Mexcio City by G.B. WHITE. Also incl. a few press photos, i.a. a portrait by Max GERLACH of General Abelardo Rodriguez (president of Mexico) (publ. stamp of "Max Gerlach Internationaler Presse-Illustr.-Photo-Verlag" on verso).