Robert [Barkley Shaw] taken in Paris. Photographer: Leblanc, C.L.
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Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length seated portrait of Robert Barkley Shaw as a youth. Photographer not credited, but probably taken by Leblanc on the same occasion as print 7.
Our mother [Martha Shaw], taken in Paris. Photographer: Leblanc, C.L.
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Inscription: Signed 'Leblanc Paris' in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length seated portrait of Martha Shaw, mother of Robert, evidently taken on the same occasion as print 5. For a biographical note on Leblanc, considered one of the finest of the early French portrait...
Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length, right half-profile portrait of the French traveller, adventurer and novelist Gustave Aimard (1818-1883). His real name was Olivier Gloux.
Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders full face portrait (oval image) of the Hungarian painter Mihály von Munkácsy (1844-1900). Munkácsy worked in Paris from 1872.