Search Results: Titles starting with V from 19th Century Rare Book and Photograph Shop

5 ½ x 7 ½ in. Salt print on original mount with triple-rule printed border with printed caption "State Capitol---South View / Montpelier, Vt." Minor soiling but generally in very good condition with good contrast. The original Greek Classical Revival Vermont State House in Montpelier was built in 1836. The structure was gutted by fire in 1857, but the front portico survived. The present State House, designed by Thomas Silloway, was constructed on the same site in 1857-58. Silloway's splendid design replaced the old saucer-shaped dome with a tall gold dome supported by Ionic columns. This salt print photograph was taken around 1859 to commemorate the completion of the building. The foreground shows newly planted trees supported by white wooden frames.

Albumen print (10 ¾ x 7 ¾ in.), mounted on card. Light wave in mount. Minor fading at edges.The French photographer Émile Gsell became the first commercial photographer based in Saigon following his first expedition to photograph Angkor in 1866.
The example at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is titled in manuscript "Musiciens Annamites, Cochinchine— Saïgon"
On the verso of the card mount is a second photograph, a studio portrait of a seated woman of Saigon (albumen print, 7 ¾ x 7 ¾ in.).

"ICONIC VIEW OF ROME. 14 x 9 in. Albumen print, on original mount. Short closed tears and some foxing to mount, image in fine condition. A fine 19th century photograph of landmarks of Rome. This early photograph, looking south over the Tiber river toward Castel Sant'Angelo and then further on to the dome of Saint Peter's Basilica, captures a view of some of Rome's most important landmarks. This vantage point had been popular with painters from the beginning of the 19th century. Painters Alexander Brullov (1826), Jean–Baptiste–Camille Corot (1826–28) and Rudolf Weigmann (1834) all produced images of this scene, and photographers later adopted the popular view for tourist photographs like the one seen here. The invention of photography radically expanded the viewer's access to far away places. As 19th–century American photographer Marcus Aurelius Root described, "What, heretofore, the traveler alone could witness, … even the humblest may now behold, substantially, without crossing his own… Read More