4974 - 5211 FINE ARTS - PHOTOGRAPHS
AND 7 press photos by RONALD SWEERING, all ±21x28,5 cm., all w. photographer's stamp on verso, i.a. portraits of teenage girls at the zoo and in a cafeteria.
- Mount and print sl. foxed, tear in top left corner of mount.
AND 10 albumen photographs by THEODORUS WEYNEN, titled "Photographien van den regter Maasoever boven en beneden Maastricht.", ±1880, 16,8x20,7 (8x)/ 16,8x11,9 (2x), forming 4 panoramic views on 2 orig. board mounts, both w. letterpress descriptions etc., both 47,8x66,3 cm.
- Tear in top left corner of both boards, some minimal foxing.
= The panoramic views give an impression of the flooding of the river Maas in Limburg as it often occurs during winter (upper panorama) and of the situation at the same spot during spring when there is no flooding. Depicting the (flooded) villages of Heugem, Gronsveld, Heer and Limmel in the very southern part of Limburg.
= All photographs of the interior and exterior of Dutch farmhouses (from the 17th-18th cent.), incl. ±35 floor plans. The first album showcases farmhouses in the regions Drenthe, Friesland, Gelderland, Groningen, Noord-Holland, Overijssel, Wieringen and Texel. The second album in the regions Limburg, Noord-Brabant, Utrecht, Zeeland, Zuid-Holland. All titled below photograph in contemp. pen and ink, some w. extra information on verso. With the unpublished manuscripts by Korringa titled "Boerenwoningen in Nederland uit de 17e en 18e eeuw door H. Korringa Architect B.N.A." and "Bijschriften bij de Afbeeldingen en Figuren".
- One bookblock loose.
= In 1924, Lehnert & Landrock traveled to the Middle-East to photograph Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine. It is very likely that during that stay they took the photographs for these two volumes. Incl. views of several tombs, mosques and pyramids in Egypt, street scenes, the Nile, the Damascus Gate and the Garden of Gethsemane.
ADDED: ±20 photographs of Jerusalem, various sizes, mostly albumen prints and some later press photos.
= One double exposed selfportrait (?), two of Van Lieshout's studio.
AND 13 mounted photographs of Van Lieshout's studio, various sizes (mostly ±30x40,5 cm.).
- Lacks part of the electric cable connection on verso.
= Printed in an edition of 10 copies. Provenance: the collection of Johan Deumens.
= I.a. the Cascata del Ponale, Forth Bridge, Mont Saint-Michel, Munich Residence, Rome and various views of Venice.
- Some small defects.
= Comprises photographs by J. Fatras (Boulogne), R. Fauvet (Paris), F. Malpot (Surgères), M. Maurer (Louviers) and Studio Paramount (Haputale).
= Mostly Dutch family portraits and views of construction sites, i.a. in Amsterdam, IJmuiden, Rotterdam and Willemstad.
AND an album w. ±80 Dutch family snapshots.
= I.a. many cabinet cards, of which some beach scenes and handcol. portraits of people in Dutch traditional costume, portraits of unidentified families and some views of Arnhem, Velp en De Steeg.
= I.a. an archeological digsite in Versoix, a burned down neighbourhood in Genève, Kosygin and Vittorio Valletta (Fiat) shaking hands and Jack Kelly (brother of Grace) in Monaco.
ADDED: a presskit, script and several behind the scenes press photos of the film "Türme des Schweigens" (1952) directed by Hans Bertram.
= I.a. various sites in Paris i.a. the Champs-Élysées, Louvre, Opera, Place Vendôme and Palais du Trocadéro and a few views of Annecy, Chamonix, Glengariff, Grenoble and Martigny.
ADDED: ±170 miscellanous photographs, ±1910-1970, incl. some stereophotographs, many (group)portraits, press photos of ships, a family album and a few panoramas of European towns.
- Partly sl. foxed board.
= Collection w. impressive views of glaciers, mountains, rivers, skylines, valleys and villages. I.a. of Egypt, Genoa, the Grand Canyon, Hardanger (Norway), Lake Garda, Lugano, Luzern and Zürich. Incl. a few picture postcards and some col. cartes-de-visite w. portraits of royalty. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVII.
- Partly sl. faded. Album covers sl. rubbed along extremities.
= Comprises i.a. town views of Aachen, Altenburg, Arnhem, Berlin, Bonn, Bremen, Coburg, Düsseldorf, Ehrenbreitstein, Eisenach, Gera, Görlitz, Hamburg, Koblenz, Meiningen, Naumburg, Prague, Rotterdam, The Hague, Treves, Weimar.
= Mostly in Europe, i.a. topographical views, people in traditional costume, family snapshots, school portraits, cabinet cards and many more.
= Some places: Resna, Prilep, Lake Ohrid, Saraj Château, Kostinci (graveyard), Vardine and Radsko. Apparently most photographs were taken by (a) German soldier(s) and many show soldiers and officers at rest near their barracks or headquarters. Quite a few also show local people, occas. in local costume. Also including a fine (unidentified) panorama consisting of 9 attached photographs (total size 11x136 cm.).
AND 9 other photographs, mostly albumen prints, ±1900, between 9,5x6 and 21x29,5 cm., i.a. of the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens (sl. faded), the harbour of Auray, the ship "S.S. Calcutta" on the Hooghly River in Kolkata and a post mortem carte-de-visite of a baby girl.
= From the portfolio La Fidelité des Images, a series of 16 posthumous prints, published by Lebeer Hossmann, Brussels, 1976. Verso frame w. a printed ticket w. typescript entries of the Obelisk Gallery, Boston, and a photostat of the photograph without the passepartout, showing the numbering etc.
= Each with printed no. "A1"-'A100", photographer and title on verso.
= From the "X Portfolio" containing graphic images of the gay SM underground scene in 1970s New York.