LUIGI PESCE (active 1850s)

Architectural studies in Tehran, including the Royal residences, 1857-58

细节
LUIGI PESCE (active 1850s)
Architectural studies in Tehran, including the Royal residences, 1857-58
Four salt prints, each approx. 7½ x 9 in., one signed Pesce in pencil on recto, mounted on paper, each titled in ink and dated in pencil on mounts. (4)
出版
Perez, Focus East, pp. 203-4

拍品专文

Titled as follows: 'Part of King's Palace in the Citadel of Tehran'; 'Sudr. Azim's Palace of Nizamea Tehran' (illus.); 'Durwazeh Dowlut of Tehran in winter'; and 'British Mission House Tehran'.

Pesce became active in photography in 1848 when he emigrated from Italy to Persia to become commander-in-chief of the Persian infantry, documenting the country and it's people.