Collection of Carte de visite with portraits of people from Georgia and the Caucasus. Six photographs are anonymous, five of them are framed in red... Show moreCollection of Carte de visite with portraits of people from Georgia and the Caucasus. Six photographs are anonymous, five of them are framed in red and titled "Visites". One photograph by the Georgian-Armenian pioneer photographer Vladimir Barkanov, with his studio stamp on the back of the print. One picture from the Studio Orlay de Karwa with its stamp on the verso of the print. Four photographs by Dimitri Ermakov with embossed seal and inventory numbers (80, 207, 168, and 25). Most of the photographs are studio portraits of Georgian men and women in traditional dresses, such as Gurian and Imeretians. Title from item, date devised by Library staff. Some prints are numbered, signed and stamped. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0039 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i23128239 BIB-ID: 2451002 Show less
The album collects photographs by the major photographers active in the Middle East at the end of the XIX century. Images include: statues and art... Show moreThe album collects photographs by the major photographers active in the Middle East at the end of the XIX century. Images include: statues and art crafts from the Museum of Gizah; Egyptian antiquities (pyramids, temples, hieroglyphics); Islamic architectures in Cairo (tombs, the Citadel, mosques and mashrabiyas); views of the streets of Cairo (hotels and bazaars); staged portraits of local people (artisans, women, peasants and musicians); the Nile river with traditional boats and ports. Title from item, date devised by Library staff. Album with vellum-bound, in golden letter and ornaments. The album consists of 24 pages. Prints are pasted on both sides. On the paste-down there is a scratched ex libris "Metropolitan Museum of Art. [illegible] of the Costume Institute. [illegible] Art Worker's Club". Manuscript note "Sold and discarted in 1960s). Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0053-0096 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26485229 BIB-ID: 2830659 Show less
Baltimore, Frederick Calvert , 1731-1771, Court and courtiers--Clothing, History--Social life and customes
Album collecting 24 of the 28 plates engraved after the drawings by Francis Smith as an illustration to the account by Lord Baltimore printed in... Show moreAlbum collecting 24 of the 28 plates engraved after the drawings by Francis Smith as an illustration to the account by Lord Baltimore printed in 1768. Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore, was an English nobleman. He lived in Istanbul between 1763 and 1764. He travelled to the East in the company of artist Fr. Smith, whose drawings illustrated Lord Baltimore's editions. In 1768, he was charged with rape, and although he was acquitted, left England in the face of public hostility. Reaching Naples in July or August 1771, Calvert died there on 14 September. The collection was probably assembled by the Italian engraver Carlo Nolli, to whose work the rest of the plates are related. He acquired directly or posthumously the copper plates by Lord Baltimore, who spent his last months in Naples in 1771. V. Grand Vizier -- VI. Reis Effendi, Principal Secretary of State. -- VII. Mufti. -- VIII. Kizlar Aga, chief of the Black Eunuchs. -- IX. Selictar Aga. -- X. Chiaus Bashi. -- XI. Aga -- XII. Arshi Cook of the Seraglio. -- XIII. Boustangi, Gardner of the Seraglio. -- XIV. Ashi Usta. -- XV. One of the Grand Signoirs Foot Guards. -- XVI. Sphais, or Horse Soldier. -- XVII. A Turkish Lady at Home. -- XVIII. A Turkish Lady. -- XIX. A Jewish Girl. -- XX. An Armenian Girl. -- XXI. A Turkish Dancer. -- XXII. A Grecian Woman. -- XXIII. A Greek Woman of Scio. -- XXIVA Greek Woman of Tino. -- XXV. A Greek Woman of Miconi. -- XXVI. A Greek Princess of Vallachia. -- XXVII. A Polander in Dress of the Court. -- XXVIII. A Polish Girl of Swanietz. Title and date devised by Library staff. Contemporary vellum-backed limp boards (worn). Plates from Lord Baltimore's collection are all numbered and captioned in English. A single sheet of letterpress bound at the end provides the "Traduzione Italiana della spiegazione Inglese", that is the Italian translation of the English description of all the plates illustrating the work of Lord Baltimore, including the 4 missing ones. Bound at the end are 9 plates depicting Roman reliefs Herculaneum engraved by Carlo Nolli after drawings by Paderni, Camillo (Italian portraitist and draftsman, active from ca. 1738, died ca. 1770), Giovanni Elia Morghen (1717-1790) and others. Also 1 leaf of engraved text by Carlo Nolli related to the Arch of Trajan in Ancona, Italy. Main Heritage Compact General HC.GM.2015.0010 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i25779928 BIB-ID: 2736605 Baltimore, Frederick Calvert. A Tour to the East, in the Years 1763, and 1764. With Remarks on the City of Constantinople and the Turks. Also, Select Pieces of Oriental Wit, Poetry and Wisdom. By F. Lord Baltimore. Dublin: Printed for J. Williams, 1768; Accademia ercolanese di archeologia, et al. [Antichità di Ercolano esposte con qualche spiegazione]. Napoli: Nella Regia Stamperia, 1755 ; Nolli, Carlo, Andrea Vici, and Francesco Giomignani. L'arco eretto all'imp. Nerva Traiano nel porto di Ancona. A.S.E.D. Francesco 4. d'Aquino patrizio napolitano... dedica l'erede di Carlo Nolli. 1770. Show less