Email this lot to a friend

« Email Address (separate multiple emails with a comma)

hide

Lot 55

translate

email

Important 1860's Italian albumen shepherd & ram

7" x 9 7/8" albumen print with number "73" in the negative, lower left. The shepherd wears a lambskin coat, pats the ram. This very print is the source of plate 31 in Ken and Jenny Jacobson's "Études d'aprés Nature. 19th Century Photographs in Relation to Art" where the photographer is referred to as the "Campagna Photographer," active in the 1860's. Collection Yvan Christ stamp on verso. [4]

[4-]See explanation of codes below

Click on thumbnails to see larger images:

View Be-Hold next auction.

Similar lots up for auction