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STIEGLITZ, ALFRED (1864-1946)
Picturesque Bits of NewYork And Other Studies.
Portfolio containing 9 (of 12) photogravures after Stieglitz’s photographs. Photogravures, sizes range
from 6
1
/
4
x5
1
/
4
to 11x8 inches (15.9x13.3 to 27.9x20.3 cm.), and the reverse, sheet size 17x14 inches
(43.2x35.6 cm.), all but one with Stieglitz’s credit and copyright printed above the image. Folio,
buckram-backed red-printed boards folder with a tie, lightly worn; with the colophon; contents
loose as issued.
NewYork: R.H. Russell, 1894-1897; printed 1897
[9,000/12,000]
“AWinter Sky—Central Park” * “AVenetian Canal” * “AWet Day on the Boulevard—Paris” *
“The Incoming Boat” * “The Glow of Night—NewYork” * “The Old Mill” * “On the Seine—
Near Paris” * “Scurrying Home” * “The Letter Box.”
Stieglitz’s first portfolio, which dramatically highlights the aesthetic clashes of the era and of Stieglitz’s
own work in realistic, glistening urban scenes and bucolic 19th-century landscapes.