[Portrait of Justus von Liebig.] Photographer: Löcherer, Alois
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Inscription: Photographer's stamp blind-embossed on mount: 'A. Löcherer Photograph in München.' Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length seated portrait of the German chemist Justus von Liebig (1803-1873). A lithographic copy of this portrait was also published in Rudolf Hoffmann's 'Ga...
[Self-portrait of Alois Löcherer.] Photographer: Löcherer, Alois
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Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length seated portrait of the German photographer Alois Löcherer (1815-1862). This print is clearly an example of a photograph on 'waxed canvas' (Wachsleinwand) that is described in the work itself.
Le Kaire. Vue générale prise à l'Ouest. Au fond: la citadelle et la mosquée de Méhémet-Ali. Photographer: Rochas, Aimé
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View across the rooftops of Cairo, with a minaret in the left foreground and looking towards the Citadel, with the Muhammad Ali Pasha Mosque visible in the distance on the skyline. Steegmuller identifies this view as having been taken from a window of the ...
Le Kaire. Maison et jardin dans le quartier Frank. Photographer: Du Camp, Maxime
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the garden towards the rear façade of the building; Gustave Flaubert, Du Camp's companion on this journey, stands in profile in the foreground, heavily bearded and wearing Arab dress. The photograph was taken in a Cairo garden (the garden of ...