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Lot 43
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John Stewart, 1800-1887

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Description

  • John Stewart
  • Souvenirs des Pyrenées. Four studies, 1853
  • each approx. 270 by 220mm or the reverse
Blanquart-Evrard Process Prints, each mounted on card, each printed with series title, plate title and publisher's credits, 'Cascade aux Eaux-Bonnes' with photographer's 'J.S.' monogram in the negative, 'Etablissement des Eaux-Chaudes' and 'Gorge de la nouvelle route des Eaux-Chaudes' monogrammed and dated '8/52' and '7/53' in the negative respectively, 'Vue prise sur la route de Luz' with no credit to the photographer,  

Exhibited

Stewart exhibited a print entitled 'Gorge in the New Road to the Eaux Chaudes - Pyrenees' at the 1852 Society of Arts show, the first ever photography exhibition in Britain; see R. Taylor 2002, p. 694.  

Literature

These prints are from Blanquart-Evrard's Souvenirs de Pyrenées, published Lille 1853.