Photographs. Album of carte-de-visite photographs by Disdéri and others, including of Verdi and Gounod

PHOTOGRAPHS.

Album of early carte-de-visite photographs of Verdi, Wagner, Rossini and others, five signed, 1860-1870s

including Verdi (2: c.1860), Rossini (2: 1862), Wagner (1861), Gounod (2, c.1860 and one inscribed: "à mon cher ami Bachelier, Ch. Gounod"), Auber, Bottesini (signed), Thomas (signed and inscribed "à mon élève Massenet"), Offenbach, Anton Rubinstein (signed) and Benjamin Godard (signed and inscribed)

15 items, (c.9 x 6cm) mainly sepia prints on paper, by Disdéri ("8 Boulevart des Italiens"), Carjat ("56 rue Lafitte"), Pougnet, Mulnier, Reutlinger, Demaisons of Paris, with H.N. King (Bath) and Angerer (Vienna), loosely held in gilt-edged photograph windows, nineteenth-century brown morocco album by Roberts of Boston, mainly Paris, 1860s-1870s

LITERATURE:

Wagner: G. Braam, Richard Wagner in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie (2015), no.8 (1861); Verdi: V&A collection numbers S.138:11-2007 & S.138:14-2007 (1862).