Lot 187: CLAUDE-JOSEPH-DÉSIRÉ CHARNAY (French, 1828...

CLAUDE-JOSEPH-DÉSIRÉ CHARNAY
(French, 1828-1915)
MITLA, EXTERIOR OF THE PRIEST'S HOUSE, 1859; printed circa 1860s
albumen print from collodion negative, on original mount
image: 10 5/8 x 16 in. (27 x 40.6 cm); mount: 21 x 27 9/16 in. (53.3 x 70 cm); label with artist's name, plate number, printer and title affixed to mount
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Désiré Charnay, CITÉS ET RUINES AMÉRICAINES, PARIS, Gide, 1962-1863, pl. 3 (illustrated); Keith F. Davis, DÉSIRÉ CHARNAY: EXPEDITIONARY PHOTOGRAPHER, ALBuQUERQUE, University of New Mexico Press, 1981, p. 40, pl. 2 (illustrated)