Vues de Paris Prise au Daguerreotype
SOLD March 2007 |
"Collection de 26 Vues de Paris Prise au Daguerreotype," a period book actually containing 28 engravings after daguerreotypes of Paris scenes published ca. 1845, by Chamouin. Original period cover has wear, back spine split, some stains and foxing to pages outside image area but images in good condition.
The full title page reads "Collection de 26 Vues de Paris Prises au Daguerreotype / Gravure en Taille Douce sur Acier / Par Chamouin." Each image on sheet approx. 10.25 x 13 inches (26x33 cm) with printed title and -- with the exception of the first three plates -- identification reading "Vues de Paris / [Title of Image] Prise au Daguerreotype / Publie par Chamouin Rue de la Harpe 29. / Chamouin dirext."
Titles of the plates are: "Nouveau Louvre", "Palais de L'Industrie", "Lac du Bois de Boulogne", "Place de la Concorde", "Palais du Senat", "Hotel de Ville", "Fontaine de la Place Louvois", "Chateau des Tuileries", "Eglise St. Germain L'Auxerrois", "Palais Royal", "La Bourse", "Vue Prise du Pont Neuf", "Arc de Triomphe de L'Etoile", "Eglise de la Madelaine", "Ecole Militaire et Champ de Mars", "Arc de Triomphe de Carrousel", "Vue Generale", "Palais due Corps Legislatif et Ministere des Affaires Etrangers", "Le Louvre, Cote de la Colonnade", "Cascade et Chateau de St. Cloud", "Chateau de Versailles", "Notre Dame, Eglise Metropolitaine", "Fontaine Moliere", "Colonne de la Place Vendome", "Colonne de Juillet", "Vue du Dome des Invalides", "Pantheon", "Eglise Saint Sulpice".
