Lot 2
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Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 EUR
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Description

  • Anonyme
  • Nantes, Inondation, 1843
  • photography
Daguerréotype pleine plaque. Montage sous passe-partout original. Annoté Inondation de 1843 au crayon sur une petite étiquette papier à l'intérieur du montage en bas à droite.

Provenance

Christie's South Kensington, Photographs, 5 Mai 2000, lot 28

Exhibited

Le daguerréotype français. Un objet photographique, cat. expo. Paris et New York, Paris, Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 2003, ill. p. 255, cat. 169.

Condition

In general good to very good condition. The plate bears the engraved date '1843' at the centre of the lower edge. With very light superficial scratching, two tiny spots of stronger scratching in the lower part of the plate at centre. With very light oxidation along the lower and upper edges and at the lower right edge. The surface is uniformly blueish across the surface.
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