Lot n° 154
Estimation :
150 - 200
EUR
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: 150EUR
Béarn - Basque Country - Lot 154
Béarn - Basque Country
HENNEBUTTE (Charles Henri)
Composite album of 12 plates extracted (11 of them) from the work "Description des environs de Bayonne et de St Sébastien. Illustrations by Mmes Hélène FEILLET and Blanche HENNEBUTTE née Feillet. Bayonne, (Imp. Lamaignère), (1852)".
In-4 oblong, 12 plates in two tones, one plate with scratched title with missing paper.
List of engravings: Pêcheuses de Saint-Jean-de-Luz / Le cacolet, environs de Bayonne / Les provinces vascongadas. Azcoitia et ses environs / Costumes basques / Costumes bayonnais / Biarritz, vue générale prise du pied du phare / Biarritz, vue de l'ancien port (manque de papier et grattage au niveau du titre) / 4 views titled Corridas de toros / Vue du château de Pau prise du parc (planche ne faisant pas partie de l'album désigné en titre).
Barbe gives a list of lithographs in this format, signed HENNEBUTTE-FEILLET (4 for Bayonne; 17 for Biarritz; 3 for Cambo; 3 for Saint-Jean-de-Luz; and 9 miscellaneous views); for the Spanish section, Barbe lists 8 city views and "5 or 6" lithographs of bullfights in St. Sebastian"(Vinson1135a)(Barbe449)(Bilbao IV, 221).
We have previously held much more complete albums in which some of the plates were in color.
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