CHARLES CLIFFORD and others

Spain and Karanti, 1850s-70s

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CHARLES CLIFFORD and others
Spain and Karanti, 1850s-70s
Album containing six salt or light albumen prints, various sizes to 7½ x 9¾ in. and ninety-three albumen prints including thirty-three large-format, sizes to 12 x 16 in. or the reverse, the remainder from approx. 4 x 6 in. to 9 x 11 in. or the reverse, a few trimmed to oval, the majority of the large-format views with photographer's blindstamp on recto (partial stamp), variously mounted amongst fifty-two watercolours, twenty-one drawings or sketches and fifty prints, various sizes, the majority of the photographs titled in ink on mounts, painted monogram H.P.J in gilt shield surrounded by decorative Moorish printed border on front blank, front free-end lined with green silk, inside front cover with green leather panel, stamped in gilt, tan morocco (spine partially damaged), stamped in gilt on front and back covers, g.e., elephant folio.

来源

By descent to the present owner.

出版

Fraenkel, Photography in Spain in the Nineteenth Century, pp. 15 and 68 (illus.)

拍品专文

Compiled by Captain Pilkington Jackson RA, probably when he was stationed at Gibraltar from the late 1850s-mid 1860s. Jackson was an accomplished water-colourist and after leaving the army went to America where for many years he taught art in Concord, New Hampshire. The watercolours include the work of Orlando Norie (2 signed), Edgar E. West (three, one signed), and [?..] Duncan (two signed). The drawings include the work of [?..] Martin (fifteen, two signed). Two of the watercolours are signed by Jackson and stylistically it seems likely that several others are also his work.R
Titles of the large-format photographs include 'Alcazar door, Seville'; 'Cathedral door, Seville'; 'Manresa, Catalunia'; 'Library door, Salamanca'; 'Barcelona'; 'Moorish Mills of Alcazar'; 'Siete Suelos'; 'Palace of Carlos V, Granada'; 'Giralda from the Plaza'; 'Malaga'; 'North view of the Rock of Gibraltar'; 'Entrance court of the Lions - Alhambra'; 'Torre del Oro, Seville'; 'Torre del Vino, Alhambra'; a harbour view and approx. seven art reproductions. Also included are thirteen views around Karanti.

Born in London, Charles Clifford was active in Spain from 1852 until 1862, the year before his death. He became official photographer to the Spanish Queen in the summer of 1858 and remained so for nearly five years, travelling the country recording momentous occasions in her life. He used both paper and collodion negatives and is best known for his large-format views and architectural studies.