Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Photographic copy of the bookseller, writer and poet, Octave Crémazie (1827-1879). The inscription on the plinth of the bust gives his dates as 1822-1879; the 'Dictionary of Canadian Biography,' however, gives his date of birth as 1827.
Bronze bust of Julius Caesar. Photographer: Thompson, Stephen
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Bronze bust of Aelius Caesar; the eyes inlaid with silver. The bust is in very fine condition, and, though rather mannered in execution, brings out the characteristics of the likeness in a very forcible manner. Height 7 1/2 in.'
Head of the young Augustus. Photographer: Thompson, Stephen
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'The head is in the finest condition, the nose and mouth being uninjured. It is very similar in scale and treatment to the much admired head of the same Emperor, when young, in the Vatican, but has the advantage of a surface which is unimpaired by injudicious cl...
Strasbourg, Monument de Guttenberg. Photographer: Braun, Jean Adolphe
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View of the statue of Johannes Gutenberg in a square in Strasbourg. Gutenberg lived in the city between 1430 and 1444, and it was probably there that he started printing.
Strasbourg, Statue du Marquis de Lizay et Préfecture. Photographer: Braun, Jean Adolphe
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Genre: War Photography General view of the statue of the Marquis de Lizay, standing on a damaged plinth, with the gutted Prefecture building in the background.
Thorvaldsen's statue of Byron. Photographer: Edwards, Ernest
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Stereoscopic view of the statue in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, with descriptive text, pp. 21-22. Published in part no. 36, June1861. Photograph uncredited, but probably by Ernest Edwards.