Lot 308
  • 308

[French Riviera]

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • Album containing 109 mounted and inserted albumen photographs of Nice, Monte Carlo, Cannes and other areas along the French Riviera. [circa 1875].
  • paper, ink, leather
Large 4to (11 7/8 x 9 in,; 300 x 229 mm). Photographs loosely inserted on both sides of 25 windowed cards, the images varying in sizes and titled on the mounts, one image hand-colored. Morocco-backed wooden marquetry boards, with a variety of inlaid colored woods (including olive), the upper cover depicting three women harvesting olives surrounded by a floral border and a view near Villefranche-sur-mer at the bottom, the rear cover with a monogram surrounded by a floral border, brass hinges and clasps.

Catalogue Note

By an unnamed photographer, the images include lovely landscape views, as well as exterior views of the principal buildings in Nice, Cannes, Mentone, San Remo, Antibes, Villafranca, Monte Carlo, and along the coasts of France and Monaco.  The album can be dated before 1878 by the views of the Casino de Monte Carlo, as the images show the casino prior to the 1878 expansion by Charles Garnier.