Exposition Universelle des Beaux-Arts
Bound volume
Unidentified
Maker
Exposition Universelle des Beaux-Arts
1855
Bound volume with albumen silver prints
Overall: 18 1/2 × 24 13/16 × 1 in. (47 × 63 × 2.5 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
DescriptionContains eighteen albumen silver prints depicting that salons and galleries of the fair, each hung floor-to-ceiling with framed paintings, including the works of Delacroix, Ingres and other French painters of the mid-nineteenth century. Bound in black decorated leather gilt and green leather gilt.
Inscriptions Stamped in gilt, front cover, C: EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE \ DES \ BEAUX-ARTS \ 1855
Stamped in gilt, spine, TC: EXPOSITION \ UNIVERSELLE \ DES \ BEAUX-ARTS \ 1855
Printed in black ink, applied label, front pastedown, TL: LIBRARY \ OF THE \ GEORGE EASTMAN \ HOUSE \ B 8-2 [alphanumerical typed in black ink]
Stamped in blue ink, front endpaper, recto, BRC: 160
Inscribed in black ink, applied scalloped-oval label, front flyleaf, recto, TR: COLLECTION \ G.CROMER
Stamped in black ink, front flyleaf, recto, BC: EASTMAN HISTORICAL \ PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION \ Cromer Collection \ B-152 [alphanumerical inscribed in pencil]
Stamped in gilt, spine, TC: EXPOSITION \ UNIVERSELLE \ DES \ BEAUX-ARTS \ 1855
Printed in black ink, applied label, front pastedown, TL: LIBRARY \ OF THE \ GEORGE EASTMAN \ HOUSE \ B 8-2 [alphanumerical typed in black ink]
Stamped in blue ink, front endpaper, recto, BRC: 160
Inscribed in black ink, applied scalloped-oval label, front flyleaf, recto, TR: COLLECTION \ G.CROMER
Stamped in black ink, front flyleaf, recto, BC: EASTMAN HISTORICAL \ PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION \ Cromer Collection \ B-152 [alphanumerical inscribed in pencil]
