Souvenir of the Universal Exposition, 1978
(Souvenir de l'exposition universelle, 1878)
1878
Medium
album: 48 cardboard pages, 24 albumen silver photographs, gold embossed cloth and cardboard cover, stitched and glued binding
Measurements
15.0 × 48.8 × 2.0 cm (open) 15.0 × 23.5 × 3.0 cm (closed)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Dr Robert Wilson Collection. Gift of Dr Robert Wilson, 2014
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Paris, France
Inscription
embossed in gold on cover c.: SOUVENIR / DE / L'EXPOSITIONB / 1878
embossed in gold on cover reverse l.r.: J. LÉVY & CIE PHOT. ÉDITEURSW
Accession Number
2014.1877
Department
International Photography
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Gasometers at Clichy
Paul SIGNAC
Amelia falling
Hank WILLIS THOMAS
Untitled (Metamorphosis 12)
Mohau MODISAKENG
Portrait of a gentleman
Louis TOCQUÉ
The finding of the True Cross
COLA dell'Amatrice
No title (Remedios Varo)
Lola ÁLVAREZ BRAVO
Untitled (Red)
Mark ROTHKO
Weeping woman
Pablo PICASSO
Gypsies
Nora DUMAS
Baronne Madeleine Deslandes
Edward BURNE-JONES
October
Jules BASTIEN-LEPAGE
The Virgin and Child
FLANDERS
Ginza (Women in matching kimonos and white parasols)
Michiko YAMAWAKI
The Dolly sisters
MADAME d’ORA
Scaramouche and Columbine
MEISSEN PORCELAIN FACTORY, Meissen (manufacturer); Johann Joachim KÄNDLER (modeller)
Nazareth, Mount Tabor
Karimeh ABBUD
Cabinet
W. H. ROCKE & CO., Melbourne (manufacturer); John MATHER (decorator)
Johann Friedrich Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, plaque
VOLKSTEDT PORCELAIN FACTORY, Volkstedt (manufacturer)
Head of Queen Nefertiti, from sculpture flanking Boundary Stela Q
EGYPT, el-Amarna
Tempelhof interior
Richard MOSSE
The washerwomen
Lola ÁLVAREZ BRAVO
Rembrandt
REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn; REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn (studio of)
Design for wallpaper
Elsa THIEMANN
Pair of glass coolers
SAINT-CLOUD PORCELAIN FACTORY, Saint-Cloud (manufacturer)
Compromise
Aïda MULUNEH
Untitled (Study of Beauty)
Dora MAAR
Calvary
FLANDERS; Jan BRUEGHEL I (studio of)
Carpoolers # 55
Alejandro CARTAGENA
Ulysses and the Sirens
John William WATERHOUSE
Carpoolers # 45
Alejandro CARTAGENA