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an old book with the title litoral des bouches sur rhone written on itan old photo of a view of a town and a body of wateran old photo of an island in the middle of the oceanan old photo of a view of a town and a lakean old photo of an island in the middle of the oceanphotograph of a black and white photo of a building on a cliffa black and white photo of a river and a citya picture of a black and white photo of a harbora picture of an old picture of a citya black and white photo of a harbor filled with boatsa picture of an old photo of a harbora picture of an old picture of a harbora black and white photo of a harbor with boatsa black and white photo of a bridge over a body of watera black and white photo of a boat in the watera black and white photo of an old picture of a harbora picture of an old photo of a bridge over a riveran old photo of a large body of water next to a docka black and white photo of a train crossing a bridgean old black and white photo of a ship docked in a harboran old photo of a lighthouse in the middle of a body of watera black and white photo of a group of people walking on the beacha black and white photo of a man sitting on a beacha picture of a black and white photo of a townan old black and white photo of a group of people in front of a buildingphotograph of a black and white photo of a beach with a boat in the waterphotograph of a black and white photo of a farm in the middle of nowherephotograph of a black and white photo of a train on a trackan old picture of a boat that is docked in the watera black and white photo of a man standing in front of a light housean old photo of a lighthouse in the middle of the oceanan old photo of a view of a town from a hillan old photo of an island in the middle of the oceana black and white photo of a small town on the wateran old photo of a small island in the middle of the oceana black and white photo of a boat on the watera black and white photo of a river with boats in itan old photo of a boat in the wateran old photo of a castle on the shore of the watera black and white photo of a harbor filled with boatsan old photo of a harbor with boats on the wateran old photo of a view of a harbor from a buildinga black and white photo of a harbor with boats in ita black and white photo of a bridge over a body of wateran old photo of a boat on the beachan old photo of a large body of water in the middle of a towna black and white photo of a train crossing a bridgemany ships that are docked in the watera black and white photo of a lighthouse in the watera black and white photo of a man sitting on a hill
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226 - ADOLPHE TERRIS (1820–1899)
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Estimate €10,000 - €12,000
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Description
ADOLPHE TERRIS (1820–1899) Album ‘Littoral des Bouches-du-Rhône’ 1872–1880 Oblong quarto album (35 x 48.5 cm), bound in brown half-shagreen, gilt title on the front cover, spine in poor condition, containing 30 prints mounted on boards, including 23 prints by Terris and 7 by the Cayol Brothers in Marseille. Average size of each print: 26.5 x 39 cm; plates: 34 x 45 cm Signatures: wet stamp, dry stamp, handwritten. - 23 albumen prints by Terris: 2 views of La Ciotat: Panorama of the harbour and shipyards, Bec de l’Aigle; 2 views of Cassis: Harbour, Calanque; 13 views of Marseille and the Île de Planier: Tide gauge on the Corniche (c. 1880), Entrance to the Old Port taken from the Pharo, Entrance to the Old Port, taken from the opposite side (completed), Entrance to the New Port with the Major in the background, with scaffolding (1870–1872), Dry dock, Interior of the Joliette docks, Joliette swing bridge, Large offshore jetty, Extensions to the new ports, Extensions to the new ports (different view), Dry docks (Mourepiane?), former Planier Lighthouse, new Planier Lighthouse built in 1881 by Augustin Fresnel in a smaller size; 4 views of Port Saint Louis du Rhône: View of the St Louis Tower, View of the St Louis Canal, view of the St Louis lock, St Louis dredger – 7 prints by the Cayol brothers dated 1873 showing: the swing bridge, the dry dock, the port of Bouc (2), Martigues, and the Fareman Lighthouse at Salins-de-Giraud (one daytime view and one night-time view). In this recently discovered album, Terris appears to have drawn inspiration from certain views of the Bouches-du-Rhône contained in Edouard Baldus’s 1861 album *Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée* . Baldus’s work was not unknown to Terris, as he had contributed a view of the Pavillon Richelieu at the Louvre to the first exhibition of the Marseille Photographic Society, which took place in 1861 on Terris’s premises. One might think, on seeing certain images from this album published some ten years later, that Terris was familiar with the views of the coastline and those of the port of Marseille contained in Baldus’s P.L.M. by Baldus. In the 1870s, the Cayol Brothers published numerous stereoscopic prints on paper of Marseille and Provence, and in 1873 they produced, at the same time as Terris, a photo essay on the coastline of the Bouches-du-Rhône.
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