Venise
Bound volume

Carlo Ponti

Maker
Italian, 1820–1893

Venise

1864
Bound volume with albumen silver prints
Overall: 17 1/16 × 11 13/16 × 1 9/16 in. (43.3 × 30 × 4 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
DescriptionContains twenty-three albumen silver prints depicting the landmarks, churches, and other landmarks in Venice, Italy. Bound in red leather gilt with marbled endpapers and gilt edges.
Inscriptions Stamped in gilt, front cover, recto, C: VENISE \ ---- \ 1864
Stamped in gilt, spine, T / B: VENISE / 1864
Inscribed in black ink, applied label on spine, B: 05.33
Printed in black ink, white label applied to front pastedown, TL: LIBRARY \ OF THE \ GEORGE EASTMAN \ HOUSE \ H 1-1 [alphanumerical typed in black ink]
Inscribed in pencil, front endpaper verso, TL: 1 fr+[?] 50 y53[?]
Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand) on flyleaf, recto, TR: superbes photographie \ cliché au collodion \ épreuve sur papier albuminé \ par Ponti
Printed in black ink, scalloped-oval label applied to flyleaf, recto, TR: COLLECTION \ G.CROMER
Stamped in black ink, flyleaf, recto, BC: EASTMAN HISTORICAL \ PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION \ Cromer Collection \ B-140 [alpha-numerical in pencil]

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