Opera Singers & Celebrities - Lot x 105 Woodburytype Vintage Photos

$595 · Offered by Tamino Autographs

Beautiful collection of 105 woodburytype* vintage photographs of mostly opera singers, but also actors, writers, composers, and other XIX-century celebrities glued to the first page of the short magazine "Paris Theatre" from the 1870s. Each page is 10.5 x 14.75 inches, pages in different conditions ranging from fair to excellent, all woodburytype photos are in excellent condition. Artists include Frédéric Febvre, Adelina Patti, Blanche Barretta, Mélanie Reboux, Delphine Ugalde, Maria Legault, Adolphe Dupuis, Giuseppe Verdi, Emma Albani, Alexandre Dumas son, Christine Nilsson, Hortense Schneider, Blanche Pierson, Celestine Galli-Marie, Frederick Lemaitre, Caroline Miolan-Carvalho, Marie Belval, Charles Lecocq, Charles Garnier, Eugenie Mauduit, and many others. SOLD TOGETHER, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY. * A Woodburytype is both a printing process and the print that it produces. In technical terms, the process is a photomechanical rather than a photographic one, because sensitivity to light plays no role in the actual printing. The process produces very high quality continuous tone images in monochrome, with surfaces that show a slight relief effect. Essentially, a Woodburytype is a mold-produced copy of an original photographic negative with a tonal range similar to a Carbon print. The process was introduced by the English photographer Walter B. Woodbury and was in use during the final third of the 19th century, most commonly for illustrating fine books with photographic portraits. It

• Binding: Hardcover

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