Voyages au Soudan oriental et dans l'Afrique septentrionale exécutés de 1847 à 1854 comprenant une exploration dans l'Algérie, les Régences de Tunis et de Tripoli, l'Égypte, la Nubie, les déserts, l'Ile de Méroé, le Sennar, le Fa-Zoglo et dans les contrées inconnues de la Nigritie. Atlas de vues pittoresques, scènes de moeurs, types de végétation remarquables, dessins d'objets éthologiques et scientifiques, panoramas et cartes géographiques Photographer(s): Trémaux, Pierre
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Imprint: XXX Half-leather and maroon buckram oblong folio volume measuring 360 x 555 mm and containing 56 plates and four maps. Of the plates, 9 are original photographic prints, the remaining 47 being tinted or coloured lithographs. In many copies of the work, which was issued in monthly part...
Full-length standing portrait of two youths. The photograph appears to have been considerably worked on in the negative and may well have been created from two separate images.
Portrait of four women, posed in front of a wall. As with most of the portraits by Trémaux, the subjects lack detail and the photographs appears to have been heavily retouched in the negative.