Alphonse de Lamartine 1, 1856

Subject: alphonse de lamartine document: 1856 albumen print (?), applied color 57. 0 x 45. 0 cm. Gift of eastman kodak company: ex-collection gabriel cromer geh neg: 34146 (83:0659:0001) sobieszek, robert a. --masterpieces of photography from the george eastman house collections. -- new york: abbeville press, 1985. P. 95. // exhibition history: "era of the french calotype", us, ny, rochester, geh - brackett clark gallery, september 17 -november 28, 1982. // "images of excellence", us, ny, rochester, geh - brackett clark gallery, january 1 - april 26, 1987. (traveled). // inscription: mat verso-(handwritten notations in ink by gabriel cromer) "first enlargement of portrait in 1861 (see "moniteur de la photographie" 1861 pages 18, etc. ) solar enlarger by liebert. . 1864-(see 1st ed. Of photo. En amerique) one of the first enlargements by nadar from his famous negative of lamartine (1790-1869) taken about. . Enlargement made about 1865? same (indecipherable) as my grand mother cromer equally by nadar. . By nadar see l'illustration du 15 april 1933, page 436" (tranlated) notes: catalogued by r. Sobieszek/pb, 4/85. //. Date: 1856.