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HOCQUARD, CHARLES EDOUARD (1855-1911)
Group of 17 mounted photographs entitled “Le Tonkin” [Vietnam], with 9 prints mounted singly
and 8 mounted doubly.With portraits of sharpshooters, lepers, merchants, fortifications and citadels,
bankers, native men forging iron, and topographic and picturesque scenes. Albumen prints, sizes
ranging from 4x6 to 7
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x9 inches (10.2x15.2 to 19.1x22.9 cm.), and the reverse, each with an
inventory number and title, in English, in the negative and the publisher’s credit, Henry Cremnitz,
printed in red. Circa 1885
[3,000/4,500]
Hocquard was a military doctor in the Franco-ChineseWar (1884-1885). His field report was illustrated
with pictures of the French conquest of Indochina and the last remaining citadels in Vietnam.
“Fondeurs de Barres D’Argent” * “Porte de l’Enceinte de Sontay” * “Deux Pavillons” and “Tiralleurs
Saigonnais” * “Elephant du Tong Doc de Bac Ninh” and “Forgerons” * “Marche aux Chiens” and
“Lepreux” * Seafaring vessel (title illegible) * “Citadelle de Bac-Ninh” * “Tour Centrale” * “Abri
Casemate de Pavillons-Noirs” * “Vue Generale de Hai-Duong” * “Eglise” * “Abri Casemate et
Defenses” (variant) * “Casemate de Pavillons” and “Abri Casement” * “Fort Chinois.”
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