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Habitation et Propriété de M.r Henri Fournier Sur la Montagne de S.ta Thereza à Rio Janeiro.
Dessiné par Mr N. Desmons.Lith. par A. Guesdon.
Imp. Lemercier, Pris. [n.d., 1855.]
Rare tinted lithograph. Sheet. 395 x 850mm (15½ x 33½"). Extensive tear, repaired, cracking, surface abrasion, laid on archival paper. Damaged.
A Brazilian fazenda (plantation) building, with some of the black workers dancing outside. Iluchar Desmons (b.1803) settled in Rio de Janeiro in 1840. In 1855 he published ''Panoramas de la Ville de Rio de Janeiro'', with thirteen lithographs. He often signed his plates with 'N Desmons'.
[Ref: 54161] £450.00
Gibraltar. Vue Générale prise au-dessus de l'Aqueduc d'Algésiras. L'Esgagne a vol d'oiseau.
A. Guesdon del. et lith. Imp. F.ois Delarue, Paris.
Paris (M.on Aumont) François Delarue, rue JJ. Rouseau 18 [n.d., c.1860].
Fine tinted lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 390 x 560mm (15¼ x 22").
A view of Gibraltar from the hills above Algeciras, with the aqueduct built 1777-83. In the foregound are Andalusians in their traditional dress, playing guitars and dancing. From a series of bird's-eye view of Spain.
[Ref: 54706] £480.00
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