Captain Linnaeus Tripe (English, 1822-1902)
Beekinpully, Veerabuddradroog, Madras, India, December 1857-January 1858
Albumenized salt print from a waxed paper negative
23.9 x 36.6 cm mounted on 43.0 x 56.5 cm paper
Printed "7" adhered above upper right corner of image, on mount

Captain Linnaeus Tripe (English, 1822-1902)
Devonport, Richmond Walk, England, 1852-1854
Albumenized salt print from a waxed paper negative
23.9 x 33.4 cm mounted flush on card
Signed "L. Tripe" in ink

V. Dijon (French)
Logging scene in a forest, 1850s
Salt print from a paper negative
21.5 x 27.6 cm, upper right corner clipped
Inscribed "13" in pencil on verso

Félix Teynard (French, 1817-1892)
"Abou-Sembil, Grand Spéos, Vue Générale", 1851-1852 negative, 1853-1854 print
Salt print from a paper negative
24.9 x 30.7 cm mounted on 38.0 x 50.0 cm paper
Printed "NUBIE / ABOU-SEMBIL / GRAND SPÉOS - VUE GÉNÉRALE / Pl. 152. Félix Teynard phot. / Publié par Goupil et Cie éditeurs, Paris, Londres, Berlin, New York." on mount

Adalbert Cuvelier (French, 1812-1871)
"Gorges de Franchard, forêt de Fontainebleau", June 1854
Salt print from a paper negative
17.0 x 19.9 cm mounted on 23.7 x 31.5 cm paper
Titled, dated and initialed "Gorges de Franchard / forêt de Fontainebleau / Juin 1854 / AC" in ink on mount

Roger Fenton (English, 1819-1869)
Landscape with waterfall, 1850s
Salt print from a collodion negative
31.5 x 30.6 cm, top corners rounded

As a landscape photographer Fenton was without parallel among his contemporaries. His most compelling views of the English, Welsh and Scottish countryside evoke the paintings of Constable and Turner and the Romantic poetry of William Wordsworth. A critic, for the Journal of the Photograhic Society in a review of the annual exhibition in 1858 noted of Fenton's work, "No one can touch Fenton for landscape....There is such an artistic feeling about the whole of these pictures...that they cannot fail to strike the beholder as something more than mere photographs."

Édouard Baldus(French, 1813-1889)
"Château de Polignac", 1850s
Coated salt print from a paper negative
32.6 x 44.7 cm mounted on 44.9 x 59.9 cm paper
Signed "E. Baldus.", titled "Château de Polignac" and numbered "No 67" in the negative. "E. Baldus" blue signature stamp on mount.

Édouard Baldus was known by 1855 as the leading architectural photographer in France. His compositions were so impressive for their clarity and scale that the government hired him to document historical monuments in Paris and the provinces. To celebrate the glory of Napoleon III and the Second Empire, he was commissioned to photograph the New Louvre under construction. The beautiful landscape Château de Polignac (1850s) belongs to a series of photographs that Baldus made while traveling through Auvergne, in central France. Perhaps because of the dramatic physical character of that region, Baldus -- through a poetic filter that can seem unrelated to his architectural views -- focused on the land itself.