Los 4036

French Indochina
Portraits and landscape views of Vietnam

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts
Auktionsdatum 5.6.2024

Photographer: Charles-Édouard Hocquard (1853-1911). Landscape views and portraits of people of Tonkin. 1887-88. 49 Woodburytypes (a few albumen prints). Each circa 21 x 15,5 cm and reverse and smaller. Some with titles in French in the negative in lower edge, mounted to gilt edge album boards (some time-staining, slight foxing at ends of album), bound in half leather album (scratches, scuff marks), marbled fly leaves and endpapers, with gilt-embossed title Voyage Autour du Monde, 1887-88, TONKIN, 33 x 45 cm.

This finely bound and thoroughly compiled album is likely part of a larger collection of souvenir albums, as the title suggests. It features 49 photographs, mostly printed as Woodburytypes, captured by Charles-Édouard Hocquard. The album documents the diverse cultural interests of its original owner, presumably a high colonial official or member of the French upper class, who brought back albums like this from a trip around the world. – Most in very good conditon and with strong contrasts, albumen prints faded.