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Auction archive: Lot number 28

(FUNERARY ARTS) Mini-archive with 45

Estimate
US$3,000 - US$4,500
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 28

(FUNERARY ARTS) Mini-archive with 45

Estimate
US$3,000 - US$4,500
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

(FUNERARY ARTS) Mini-archive with 45 remarkable Victorian- and Edwardian-era photographs relating to death and dying; a few are quite large. With a post-mortem commemorative assemblage that includes a mustachioed Catholic man in his casket, with a yellow ribbon, large crucifix and silver plaque that reads AT REST (all set into into a later shadow box frame, 1980s?); plus numerous images of elaborate wreaths and floral displays commerorating the passing of parents, a teacher, a paymaster, patriots and military figures, and a young woman; a wagon containing a hearse, promotional images of cemetery monuments, plus family members at cemeteries, 8 floral displays in which a photograph of the deceased is featured, a half-plate tintype of a girl at rest (in a custom frame) and more; includes 6 stereo views. Albumen (25), tintype (2), printing-out paper (15), and silver (6) prints, 5x3 to 10 1/2x13 1/2 inches (12.7x7.6 to 26.7x34.3 cm.); 2 are framed; overall size of the shadow box frame is 21 3/4x17x3 1/2 inches (54.6x44.5x8.9 cm.). 1870s-circa 1920

Auction archive: Lot number 28
Auction:
Datum:
15 Oct 2015
Auction house:
Swann Galleries, Inc.
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY 10010
United States
swann@swanngalleries.com
+1 (0)212 2544710
+1 (0)212 9791017
Beschreibung:

(FUNERARY ARTS) Mini-archive with 45 remarkable Victorian- and Edwardian-era photographs relating to death and dying; a few are quite large. With a post-mortem commemorative assemblage that includes a mustachioed Catholic man in his casket, with a yellow ribbon, large crucifix and silver plaque that reads AT REST (all set into into a later shadow box frame, 1980s?); plus numerous images of elaborate wreaths and floral displays commerorating the passing of parents, a teacher, a paymaster, patriots and military figures, and a young woman; a wagon containing a hearse, promotional images of cemetery monuments, plus family members at cemeteries, 8 floral displays in which a photograph of the deceased is featured, a half-plate tintype of a girl at rest (in a custom frame) and more; includes 6 stereo views. Albumen (25), tintype (2), printing-out paper (15), and silver (6) prints, 5x3 to 10 1/2x13 1/2 inches (12.7x7.6 to 26.7x34.3 cm.); 2 are framed; overall size of the shadow box frame is 21 3/4x17x3 1/2 inches (54.6x44.5x8.9 cm.). 1870s-circa 1920

Auction archive: Lot number 28
Auction:
Datum:
15 Oct 2015
Auction house:
Swann Galleries, Inc.
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY 10010
United States
swann@swanngalleries.com
+1 (0)212 2544710
+1 (0)212 9791017
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