4659 - 4759 FINE ARTS - PHOTOGRAPHS
- Sides of boxes partly sl. dam. (but complete). Autochrome all in fine condition.
= Very rare collection of early colour positives, produced according to the autochrome process invented by Auguste Lumière and patented in 1903.
Comprises the following views (identifications as given in Dutch in manuscript on ticket in margin of the plates): 1). "Sn Maurette" (two ladies standing on road in a mountainous landscape, a white church in the background) (col. view); 2). "Chamonix (Eissee)" (b/w view); 3). "Lugano" (weakly col. view); 4). (The front of a house with street number "79" and the name of "Schubert" on a partly illegible plaque) (weakly col. view); 5). "Villa Carlotta a/ Como See" (two ladies standing in the gardens) (col. view); 6)."Villa Carlotta (Como See)" (two women standing on a garden path in an arbor) (weakly col. view); 7). (A view of garden with tulips blossoming in front of a fountain) (col. view); 8). (View through an archway of cobbled alley with a woman with a broom leaning against the wall and people seated at the end of the alley) (col. view); 9). "Wiesbaden" (view of a lake in the park) (col. view); 10). "Sn Maurette" (variant of the view described under no.1. The ladies have switched sides) (col. view); 11). "Zermatt" (col. view) and 12). "Bootwerf Isenwald a/ Brienzer See". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXIX.
= Provenance: the estate of the photographer.
- Two sm. tears in lower edge; lacks tiny portion of right margin.
= Album dedicated to Willem Hendrik Burgers, on the occassion of his 30-year membership and presidency of the Burgerlijk Armbestuur at Helder, "als een bewijs van bijzondere waardeering en hoogachting voor het vele en omvangrijke werk (...)".
WITH 2 loosely inserted albumen photographs, one groupportrait (probably) of the members of the board of the Burgerlijk Armbestuur, one oval portrait of a baby w. manuscript on verso "9 Julie 1922 onzen lieven kleine Piet".
- Lacks a few tiny portions of blank margins; rolled up.
= The event took place on 9 September 1910. Possibly a sl. later reprint.
= A slightly later impression. Provenance: the estate of the son of Mondriaan.
= Verso board w. copyright stamp and signed and "Gorcum 1940" in ballpoint.
Brinkgreve, M. (1946-2010). (Leidsegracht, Amsterdam). Gelatin siver print, 40x29,5 cm., laid down on board.
= "Maarten Brinkgreve, Leidsegracht 31, 4 juni 1967" in ballpoint on verso.
ADDED: 14 miscell. others, i.a. a view of Dam square (Amsterdam) and a few cabinet photographs.
- Slightly frayed; some vague ofsetting from former passepartout. = A remarkable portrait.
- A few tiny dam. spots.
- One broken in half; the others occas. w. sm. defects.
= Contains i.a. a photograph of the "Braunschweiger Männer-Turn-Verein", a tea-party, some family portraits and a wedding.
= In these rare physionotraces an engraved profile portrait was made with the use of the light of a lamp, which cast the profile of a sitter onto a glass plate, from where it was copied by a mechanical engraving apparatus onto a copper plate. Because of their realism, physionotraces are seen as precursors of photographs. The etching of the lady has an old annotation in pencil identifying(?) her as "Rochebrune".
= Portraits of i.a. K. Appel, Beatrix, J. v.d. Broek, F. Buchman, President Chiang, Agathe Christie, M. Ghandi, G. Greene, Sven Hedin, J. Joyce, Somerset Maugham, G.B. Shaw and J. Verne.
- Some eroded spots in lower margin; backside of frame waterst. (photograph not examined outside frame).
= With colophon on verso frame: "Deze foto, archiefnummer 49120147 heb ik in 1949 in Leiden gemaakt. Dertig exemplaren zijn nu naar mijn aanwijzingen door Capi-Lux vergroot op Ilfobroom Galeriepapier (...)", signed, numb. "10/30" and dated "18 april 1985".