Lot 4127: Ahrendts, Leopold Brandenburg Gate; Lustgarten;

Ahrendts, Leopold Brandenburg Gate; Lustgarten; Zeughaus Brandenburg Gate; Lustgarten; Zeughaus, Berlin. Late 1850s. 3 gold-toned albumen prints with rounded corners. Each circa 18,5 x 23 cm. Mounted to original board (slightly soiled) and annotated in ink in German below the images on the mounts. A few light surface abrasions, otherwise in excellent condition with a strong violet-brown tone. Lit.: Bodo von Dewitz/Wolfgang Horbert (eds.) Schatzhõuser der Photographie. Die Sammlung des F³rsten zu Wied. Cologne 1998, ill. pp. 88-89 (similar images, Lustgarten and Zeughaus). Rainer Wick (ed.). The Pioneers of Photography 1840-1900 The Robert Lebeck Collection. Freiburg 1988, ill. p. 61 (similar image, Brandenburg Gate).