1895. PESTEL Aurélien (1855-1897) Landscapes... - Lot 55 - Lynda Trouvé

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1895. PESTEL Aurélien (1855-1897) Landscapes... - Lot 55 - Lynda Trouvé
1895. PESTEL Aurélien (1855-1897) Landscapes and Types of Saigon, c.1895 Oblong folio album (29x37 cm), black and gold lacquered binding with period animal decoration (chips and lacks). 43 albumen prints mounted on cardboard, handwritten legends in ink on the mounts, several captioned prints in the negatives. 16.5 x 22.5 cm to 17.5 x 23 cm City of Saigon: Palace of the General Government and Norodom Boulevard; Palace of the General Government (Facade on Norodom Boulevard and Festival Hall); Norodom Boulevard, Gambetta statue; Catinat Street (from the Cathedral to the harbour); Government Secretariat; Courthouse and Central Prison; Entrance to the Courthouse; Norodom Boulevard and part of the Cathedral; Cathedral and Catinat Street; Water tower; View of the harbour; Post and Telegraph Hotel; Commercial wharf; Old Charner Canal; Charner Boulevard; Square and Francis Garnier statue; Lieutenant-Governor's Palace (facade on rue La Grandière); Lieutenant-Governor's Palace (facade on the park); Theatre; Entrance to the Marine Infantry Barracks; Square and Rigault de Grenouilly statue ; Entrance of Catinat Street and Quai du Commerce; City entrance; Justice of Peace (facade on Boulevard Charner); Customs House; Chinese Pagoda; Botanical Garden-Music Kiosk; Botanical Garden-Cambodian Pavilion; Botanical Garden. Tongan Theater Stage; Fruit merchant; Mobile restaurant; Bamboo coolies; Basket coolies; Tomb of Bishop Pigneau de Behaine, Bishop of Adran; Ox car; Cochinchinese landscape; Annamite tomb; Cambodian Bonzerie; Trotting ox car; Ploughing a rice field; Chinese tomb. Aurelian PESTEL (1855-1897) Arriving in Indochina in 1885 as an employee of indirect contributions he became a professional photographer, first in Cambodia, then in Saigon where he died at 10 Boulevard Charner in 1897. The quality of his pictures made him the ambassador of Indochina at the Universal Exhibition in Lyon in 1894, where he presented an album of pictures on Coc
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