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Bruno Braquehais
Siege of Paris (Siège de Paris) 1870-1871
album: albumen silver photographs, 98 pages, leather and cardboard cover, hand-stitched binding
23.2 × 30.6 cm (page) 24.0 × 30.9 × 3.1 cm (closed) 23.8 × 62.5 × 1.8 cm (open)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1980
© Public Domain
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Siege of Paris
(Siège de Paris)
1870-1871
Medium
album: albumen silver photographs, 98 pages, leather and cardboard cover, hand-stitched binding
Measurements
23.2 × 30.6 cm (page) 24.0 × 30.9 × 3.1 cm (closed) 23.8 × 62.5 × 1.8 cm (open)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1980
© Public Domain
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
France
Inscription
embossed in gold on cover c.: SIÈGE DE PARIS / 1870-1871
inscribed in brown ink on page one c.: Album historique / des / Maleurs de Larir, / photographie par B. Braquehais, / II, Boulevard des Italiens. (ulevard des It underlined) / Douloureux souvenir / d'un pays plein de gloire; / Sombre page du livre oùbrillair notre historie; Diets à l'Etranger qui vous reconnaîtra : / Repectez nous toujours; "Lutèce" renaîtra! / Qui, puifre un tel fléau régénérer la France ! / Un peuple se transfourmer e au sein de la souffrance, / Et, plus pur en sortans du creuser du malheur, / Il peur, hier vaincu, demain ètre vaingueur! / Et vous, restes fumants d'une guerre saurage, / vous, palais effondrès, vous, furrèbres débris, Soyez notre arc-en-ceil après les jours d'orage, / Révillez dans les q (q scribbled over) couers l'amour vrai du Pays!!! / Placide Couly.
Accession Number
PH59-1980
Department
International Photography
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