Lot 7: (USE HORIZONTAL, BUT ONLY IF IT APPEARS LARGER THAN ONE COLUMN WIDTH; OTHERWISE, PICK ONE OF THE TWO VERTICALS) WILLIAM JAMES STILLMAN

(American 1828-1901) ATHENS 7 credited and/or initialed, dated, 2 titled and each sequentially numbered in negative or in pencil on recto label with printed titled adhered to each mount stamp "University College, London" on verso of each mount 25 albumen prints mounted in folio (lacking plate 17) with credit and title in gilt on top flap each approximately: 71/2 x 91/2 in. (19.1 x 24.2 cm) or the inverse overall: 183/8 x 141/2 in. (46.7 x 35.9 cm) circa 1869 PROVENANCE Private Collection LITERATURE Richard Pare, PHOTOGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE, Montreal, Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1985, pl. 65 & 66 (2 illustrated) Alkis X. Xanthakis, HISTORY OF GREEK PHOTOGRAPHY 1839-1960, Athens: Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive, 1988, pp. 88-90 William James Stillman was an American diplomat and writer. He was based in Crete in the Mediterranean as Consul from 1865 to 1867. He moved from Crete to Athens the following year and there undertook the project of making this fine series of studies of the ruins of the Parthenon and related buildings on the Acropolis. Stillman moved on from Athens to London and there, in 1870, published his Acropolis images as carbon prints. The series is rare, and particularly uncommon as albumen prints.