Sale 2489 - Artists & Amateurs: Photographs & Photobooks, October 18, 2018

40 c MARC FERREZ (1843-1923) Suite of 22 photographs of Rio de Janeiro and its environs by Brazil’s preeminent 19th-century photographer. With 18 medium-format views and 4 sweeping panoramas. Including 7 scenes of the city’s lush vegetation and topography. Albumen prints, the images measuring 8 3 / 4 x6 1 / 4 to 6 1 / 2 x13 1 / 2 inches (22.2x15.9 to 16.5x34.3 cm.), and the reverse, 18 on the original mounts 9 1 / 4 x12 1 / 2 inches (23.5x31.8 cm.), the 4 panoramas are unmounted, 14 with Ferrez’s signature in the negative and each with a printed caption, in French, also in the negative; the mounted prints with a caption, in ink, on mount recto and 17 with a numeric notation on mount verso. Circa 1870 [10,000/15,000] The 4 panoramas include: La Gloire, de Santa Thereza * La Gloire de Santa Thereza (variant) * Les Docks et Arsenal * Botafogo - a vol d’oiseau .