Courret Hermanos
Description
Many of the mounts are blind stamped in oval format: Courret Hermanos / Fotografos / Calle Mercadres, 197 / Lima.Handwritten captions in French appear on the upper left corner of most mount versos; many captions have been trimmed along the upper edge of the mount.Label on verso of front free endpaper in each album: Adolphe Legoupy / Marchand d'Estampes / 5 Boul. de la Madeleine / Paris.Album I, written on the 2nd leaf, recto in dealer's (?) hand: Album I / 42 phot. In pencil on the 2nd leaf, verso: Tremblement de terre d'Arequipa / Août 1868 / ... qui date l'album.Album II, written on the 2nd leaf, recto in dealer's (?) hand: Album II / Chili 1868 / 52 phot. / Un album même Courret Hermanos / contient des photos de Pérou, avec le / Tremblement de terre d'Arequipa en 1968. At bottom of leaf: B... /2 rue Casimir Périér (7e).Title devised.Binding Note: Both albums are bound in red morocco. Endpapers (paste-downs and free endpapers) are covered in emerald green silk moiré. The front free endpapers are each gilt stamped with a heraldic device: album I contains a shield divided in three parts containing a horse, a tree and a cornucopia, surmounted by wings and a laurel wreath and flanked by gold flourishes; album II contains a shield divided in two parts with a large star in its middle, flanked by a crowned rampant lion and a crowned rampant eagle and surmounted by plumes with flourishes below.Inventory of photograph...
Image
Albumen Prints Peru 19th Century.Photograph Albums 19th Century.Studio Portraits Peru 19th Century.Photographs, Original.
Courret, Aquiles,1830Courret, Eugenio,1841
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- Architecture, Domestic
- Arequipa
- Arica
- Bolivia
- Callao
- Catedral De Arequipa
- Catedral De Lima
- Catedral De Santiago
- Chile
- Chorillos
- Description And Travel
- Earthquakes
- Gardens
- Harbors
- Indigenous Peoples
- Landscapes
- Lima
- Peru
- Plaza De Armas (Arequipa, Peru)
- Plaza De Armas (Lima, Peru)
- Plaza Mayor (Santiago, Chile)
- Portraits
- Tsunamis