Auguste Salzmann

Blanquart-Evrard salt print from a waxed-paper negative, on the original folio mount, 1854

Robert Hershkowitz Ltd., Sussex, England, 2002

Monterey Museum of Art, Passion and Precision: Photographs from the Collection of Margaret W. Weston, 2003

Passion and Precision, p. 48 (this print)

Grading this salt print on a scale of 1 to 10--a 10 being a salt print with deep brown dark tones and highlights that retain all of their original detail--this print rates a 10. This print is in generally excellent condition. The top and right edges are lightly faded. In the bottom right quadrant there is a ½-inch oval darkened area which appears to be original retouching. The mount is lightly soiled and age-darkened around the edges.
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The full catalogue information for this lot is as follows:

a plate from the album Jérusalem, époques judaïque, romaine, chrétienne, arabe.  Explorations photographiques par A. Salzmann (Lille, 1854), Blanquart-Evrard salt print from a waxed-paper negative, numbered '69' by the photographer in the negative, on the original folio mount, the series title, image title, and photographer's and publisher's credits in letterpress on the mount, matted, 1854