Lot 113: WILLIAM J. STILLMAN 1828-1901 'THE ACROPOLIS OF ATHENS. ILLUSTRATED PICTURESQUELY AND ARCHITECTURALLY IN PHOTOGRAPHY'

ARTIST'S NATIONALITY American DETAILED DESCRIPTION (London: F. S. Ellis, 1870), a book illustrated with 26 carbon prints of the Architecture and Environs of the Acropolis, comprising one small carbon print on the title and 25 larger carbon prints, most numbered and a few with the photographer's signature, caption, and/or date in the negative, mounted one to a leaf, each with a leaf of accompanying text. Tall folio, gilt-lettered green one-quarter morocco, the bookplate of James Hale Bates on the front pastedown PROVENANCE Christie's New York, 28 October 1987, Sale 6468, Lot 439, to the current owner; originally from the collection of the Packer Collegiate Institute LITERATURE Truthful Lens 155 NYPL 223 Pare, Photography and Architecture, 1839?1939, pls. 65, 66 (variant), and 68, and pp. 241-2 Ehrenkranz et al., Poetic Localities: Photographs of... William J. Stillman, pp. 22-3, pls. 19-33, figs. xv, xviii-xx, and pp. 111-4 Edwards, 'Foreign Photographers in Greece in the 19th-Century,' in Benaki Museum, Athens 1839-1900: A Photographic Record, p. 22

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