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Robertson, James.
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description
- Seven hand-coloured portrait photographs of costume and trades in Constantinople. [early 1850s]
- paper
7 salted paper prints (205 x 150mm.), overpainted with watercolour and bodycolour, heightened with gum arabic, individually mounted on card, some light spotting
Catalogue Note
Rare. Robertson's photographic studies of Turkish costume and street characters and trades are the first such photographs taken in Constantinople and are "certainly among the earliest photographs of street workers in the world. They pre-date Atget's celebrated series of Parisian vendors by 45 years." (K. Jacobson, Odalisques & Arabesques, p.264).