Sale 2466 - Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks, February 15, 2018

15 c (BRAZIL) Select group of 19 spectacular ethnographic portraits of indigenous women of Pernambuco and Bahia that was compiled by the Swiss photographer Hermann Kummler. With subjects of Indian and mixed-race descent, including vendors, wet nurses, maids, mothers and children, and merchants, including a mistress punishing a native child. Salted paper prints with trimmed corners, the images measuring 7x3 3 / 8 to 7 1 / 4 x4 1 / 2 inches (17.8x8.4 to 18.4x11.4 cm.), 7 are hand-colored with gouache; the original mounts, 9 bright blue or green, 6 double mounted, measuring 9 1 / 4 x7 to 8 1 / 4 x11 1 / 4 inches (24.1x17.8 to 21x29.8 cm.), most with Kummler’s caption notations, in ink, and each with his red hand stamp on prints (one) or mounts recto. 1861-62   [9,000/12,000]