Lot 1160: 9 Early Photographs w/ Italian Subjects Incl. Fratelli Alinari & Adolphe Braun

Group of nine (9) early Italian art historical photographs, including Fratelli Alinari & Adolphe Braun. 1st-2nd items: Two Fratelli Alinari albumen silver print photographs of Florentine landmarks: Michelangelo’s Tomb of Lorenzo de Medici, New Sacristy in the Basilica de San Lorenzo, Florence, and Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise doors, Baptistery of San Giovanni, Florence. Both mounted to card and both with “Fratelli Alinari / Firenze / Via Nazionale 8” embossed blindstamp to lower right corners. Tomb of Lorenzo Medici print: 22 1/4 in. H x 17 in. W. Gates of Paradise print: 22 in.H x 16 1/4 in. W. Both card mounts: 28 in. H x 21 3/4 in. W. Second half of 19th century. 3rd – 4th items: Two albumen silver print photographs of Roman subjects: Marble portrait bust of young Augustus Caesar, Vatican, Rome, and the Mausoleum Caecilia Matella, Appian Way, Rome. Both mounted to card. Bust of Augustus print: 18 in. H x 13 1/4 in. W. Card mount: 22 1/4 in. H x 17 in. W. Mausoleum Caecilia Matella print: 15 3/4 in. H x 12 1/4 in. W. Card mount: 25 1/8 in. H x 19 1/8 in. W. Early 20th-century or earlier. 5th-9th items: Five Adolphe Braun albumen silver print photographs including Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam, Sistine Chapel, and his marble statue of Moses, San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome; Lo Spagna/Giovanni di Pietro’s drawing of the head of an old man (a study for Saint Joseph of Arimathea), Louvre, Paris; Raphael’s sheet of studies for a Madonna and Child, Uffizi Gallery, Florence; and a sepia-tint photograph of sheet of studies of a woman attributed to Michelangelo, Bibliotheque Ambrosienne, Milan. All with printed “Adolphe Braun, Phot.” printed at lower left of mounts plus captions. All mounted to card. Photographs range from 7 1/2 in. H x 5 1/8 in. W. to 18 7/8 in. H x 14 3/4 in. W. Card mounts approx.: 24 1/2 in. H x 18 7/8 in. W. 19th century.

CONDITION: All photographs are in overall very good condition. Both Adolphe Braun Vatican collection photographs have negligible chips or tears without loss to the upper center edge. Mounts with scattered stains, creases, tears, waviness, and losses.