拍品 132
132
NORTH, SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA AND AUSTRALIA
COURRET HERMANOS

细节
COURRET HERMANOS

'Lima 1867'

Album of eighty-three numbered plates comprising fifty-two albumen prints each approx. 8 x 6 in., mounted one-per-page and 124 carte-de-visite-size albumen prints mounted four-per-page, two-tone card mounts, each with photographers' red facsimile signature Courret H.s. Lima and approx. half with printed titles, later tissue guards, Lima Souvenirs 1867 in ink on title page, red morocco (re-backed), titled and dated in gilt on front cover, g.e., oblong large 4to., in modern black cloth box.

拍品专文

A rare and comprehensive album of portraits and views including the significant architecture of the city, with studies of individual buildings and gardens as well as townscape views and street scenes, with two studies of French firemen one of which shows them practising fire-fighting techniques; three full-size Peruvian portraits and 124 carte-de-visite-size portraits, of which approx. one third show Peruvians and immigrants from Africa and the Far East, the remainder being portraits of European or American women.

The photographs are most probably by Eugenio Courret who was the most active photographer of the family firm.