5186 - 5317 FINE ARTS - PHOTOGRAPHS
- Several quires loose; many plates numb. in pen and ink in blank margin; a few plates cut sl. short (w. loss of some words of the description).
= Plates show several Dutch villages and smaller cities, i.a. Katwijk aan Zee, Zutphen, Twello, Velsen, Kolderveen, Zuidveen, De Steeg, Tholen, Muiden, Nieuw-Vossemeer, De Bilt, Groenlo and Weesp.
ADDED: ±40 miscell. 20th-cent. picture postcards.
= Varied collection, incl. views of i.a. Amsterdam, The Hague, Deventer, Enkhuizen, Haarlem, Hoorn, Leyden, Nijmegen and Scheveningen (the Kurhaus).
- Mount trifle dustsoiled.
AND 2 mounted albumen prints of smaller sailing vessels (19th cent.).
- "Cheik Musulman" sl. soiled in part of blank margins. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LV.
AND 57 others similar, all but 2 by Felix BONFILS, almost all signed and titled (in French and English) in the print, i.a. "Femme arabe au promenade", "Femmes bédouines", "General View of the Mosque of Omar", "Bazar at Jaffa", "Tower of the forty martyrs at Ramleh", "Tomb of the Virgin and cave of the agony", "The field of blood, or valley of Hinnom", "General view of the site of Solomon's temple", "The Damascus Gate", "Stairway to the Holy Sepulchre", "Jerusalem - Ruines sur le lieu d'ou Christ predit la ruine de Jerusalem", "The Jews wailing place, a friday", "Jerusalem - Porte de Jaffa, extérieur", "View of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives" and (prob. not by Bonfils) "Femme arabe".
= A very attractive and interesting lot, showing the various inhabitants of late 19th century Palestine.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LV.
AND 14 other albumen prints, mostly anonymous, mostly ±21x27 (or vice-versa), i.a. ZANGAKI BROTHERS, "Jérusalem (...) Vue du Saint Sépulcre"; AMERICAN COLONY, "Gate of Christ's Triumphal Entry (...) Porte Dorée"; IDEM, "Tombs of the Kings and Church of St George (...) Tombeaux des Rois" (faded). - ADDED: 6 press photos, dating between 1949-1964, i.a. of Chaim Weizmann's inauguration as president of Israel in 1949.
- One mount sl. dampwrinkled in lower margin (not affecting the print).
= Some Hungarian names on verso. Three portraits of women, one of a young man and one of a couple.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LV.
AND a series of 9 press-photos of Winston Churchill, ±1946-1955, mostly 14,5x19,5 cm. (or vice versa), all w. cyclostyled caption on verso.
= Mostly photos of Churchill on the campaign trail, speaking to the public.
ADDED: 31 portrait photos (incl. some group-portraits), mostly ±1900, mostly 14,5x10 cm., almost all laid down on board mount.
= Incl. a (sl. faded) nice portrait of the "Amateur Theatricals Workington" (with the 5 actors identified on the mount); a photo of 4 ladies, one of them holding a tennis racket; a photo of 32 members of the household staff of a large mansion (or a hotel?).
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LV.
- Trifle foxed and stained; blank margins of mounts partly dam.
= Views of i.a. the harbour, the steps (famous from Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin) and the Deribasovskaya street. Jean Raoult moved to Odessa in the 1870s. He is most renowned for his ethnographic photography in the Caucasus and southern regions of Russia. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVI.
AND 2 views of Prague by F. FRIDRICH.
= Comprises photographs/ real-photo picture postcards of the royal houses/ families of i.a. Habsburg (7x, i.a. Archduke Eugen of Austria (2x), Princess Stéphanie of Belgium (later Archduchess of Austria), and the 9 children of Archduke Franz Salvator and Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria); Baden (2x, Prince Berthold); Braunschweig (5x, all real-photo postcards of Prince Ernst August and family); Bavaria (13x, i.a. Luitpold prince regent of Bayern, Luitpold Hereditary Prince of Bavaria, Ludwig III of Bavaria and Queen Maria Theresia with their 9 children, Ludwig III, Duchess Marie Gabrielle (wife of Ruprecht von Bayern)); Belgium (5x, i.a. Marie Henriette of Austria Queen of the Belgians, Princess Marie-José); Bulgaria/ Serbia (5x, i.a. Ferdinand I, Marie Louise de Bourbon Parma Princess of Bulgaria); Denmark (4x, i.a. Crown Princess Louisa of Sweden); Germany (35x, incl. 21 mainly real photogr. picture postcards, mostly of Emperor Wilhelm II, his children, and his family, also of Wilhelm I and of Emperor Friedrich III King of Prussia); Greece (2x, Sophia of Prussia Queen of Greece and King George I with Olga of Russia Queen of Greece); Italy (17x, i.a. Elena of Montenegro Queen of Italy, King Victor Emanuel III, King Umberto I and Umberto II as a young prince); Mecklenburg-Schwerin (9x, i.a. Grand Duchess Marie von Mecklenburg-Schwerin); Romania (9x, i.a. King Carol I and Elizabeth von Wied, Queen Elizabeth Queen of Romania, Maria of Romania and her children (2x)); Russia (9x, i.a. Czar Nicholas II with his wife princess Alix von Hessen Darmstadt and daughter Olga, Czarina Alexandra, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna); Saxen-Coburg- Gotha (4x, Duchess Victoria Adelheid); Portugal (2x, i.a. Queen Maria Pia), Spain (3x, i.a. King Alfonso XIII, the same with his mother Marie Christine of Austria); Saxony and Saxen-Weimar (8x, i.a. Grand Duke Carl Alexander, Archduchess Louise of Austria (later Crown Princess of Saxony (until she lost her titles because of her marriage to her second husband)) and King Friedrich August III of Saxony); Sweden (8x, i.a. Queen Victoria of Baden, Prince Oscar, Princess Bernadotte, and King Gustaf V) and Württemberg (3x, i.a. King Wilhelm II).
- Sl. discoloured.
Merkoulov, Dimitri (b.1962). "Juggler". Gouache, 25x32 cm., signed "D. Merkoulov MD 94" and titled in pencil.
= With dedication ("Voor Hans H. v. D. Merkoulov 30.9.94") in pencil on verso.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVI.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVII.