Monuments Aztèques du Mexique

Monuments Aztèques du Mexique

Bound volume

Désiré Charnay

Maker
French, 1828–1915

Monuments Aztèques du Mexique

1859-1860
Bound volume with albumen silver prints
Overall: 9 5/8 × 9 7/16 × 2 3/8 in. (24.4 × 24 × 6 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1973.0199.0001-0031
DescriptionContains thirty-one albumen silver prints made during Charnay's first expedition to Mexico (1857-1861). All but one of these photographs were published as a portfolio by Charnay as "Cités et Ruines américaines: Mitla, Palenque, Izamal, Chichén-Itza" (1863).
Inscriptions Printed in black ink, album manufacturer label, front pastedown, TL: FABRIQUE DE REGISTRES A DOS ÉLASTIQUES [...] \ L. DOMBEY \ PARIS [...]
Inscribed in black ink on applied scalloped-oval label, front pastedown, TL: collection \ G. Cromer
Printed in black ink, applied label, front pastedown, TL: LIBRARY \ OF THE \ GEORGE EASTMAN \ HOUSE \ H 3-2
Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand) on front pastedown, TC: acheté chez \ [newsprint clipping pasted below Cromer's words] JEAN SCHEMIT, 45, RUE LAFITTE, PARIS (IXe) \ NOVEMBRE 1932
Printed in black ink, newsprint clipping pasted to front pastedown, C: 4157 CHARNAY (Désiré). Monuments Axtè- \ ques du Mexique Album de 31 photo- \ graphies, 40 x 28, collées sur bristol, \ in-fol., cart. 120 fr.
Inscribed in black ink, calling card, pasted to front pastedown, C: Photographies de \ Mr.
Printed in black ink, calling card, pasted to front pastedown, C: Désiré Charnay \ 7, rue de la Paix
Inscribed in pencil, calling card, pasted to front pastedown, C: Double de 0.145
Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand) on front pastedown, CL: vues publiées d'abord \ dans le "Tour du Monde".
Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand) on front pastedown, CR: explorateur, 1828-1915
Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand) on front pastedown, C: voir: \ [newsprint clipping: 4158 Charnay (Désiré) Les Anciennes villes du Nouveau Monde. Voyages d'explora- \ tions au Mexique et dans L'Amériques \ Centrale (1857-1882). Ouvrage contenant \ 214 gravures et 19 cartes ou plans. Pa- \ ris, Hachette et Cie, 1885, in-4, demi-rel, \ chag. rouge, dos orné, plats toile, fers \ spéc, tr. dor. 200 fr.] \ (que je n'ai pas acheté!) \ auteur aussi des "Monuments Atzèques [sic]" \ voir à la bibliothèque des Arts Décoratifs
Stamped in black ink, front pastedown, BC: EASTMAN HISTORICAL \ PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION \ Cromer Collection \ B-153 [numerical inscribed in pencil]
Inscribed in pencil, front pastedown, BR: [in penciled rectangle border] References are to \ KELEMEN, PAL- \ Medieval American Art, vol. II. \ New York, Macmillan 1943.

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