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MAXIME DU CAMP (French, 1822-1894) SECONDE CATARACTE "une prise à la Seconde Cataracte (Nubie)" insc

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MAXIME DU CAMP (French, 1822-1894) SECONDE CATARACTE  une prise à la Seconde Cataracte (Nubie)  insc
MAXIME DU CAMP (French, 1822-1894) SECONDE CATARACTE "une prise à la Seconde Cataracte (Nubie)" inscribed in pencil on mount vintage salt print from a glass negative 39/16 x 85/8 in. (9 x 22 cm) 1850 ESTIMATE: $15,000-20,000 PROVENANCE Private Collection, FRANCE Author and journalist, Maxime Du Camp, was assigned to an archaeological mission by the Ministère de l'Instruction Publique lasting from 1849 to 1851. Following brief instruction from Gustave Le Gray, he made almost 200 calotypes of which 125 were selected to illustrate albums on Egypt, Nubia, Palestine and Syria. These were published by Gide and Baudry and printed by Blanquart-Evrard. This panoramic view, however, was printed by Maxime Du Camp himself in Rome, and is thus not part of the aforementioned album published by Blanquart-Evrard. In 1851, when Du Camp was returning to France, he stopped in Rome at the Villa Médicis, and with Alfred Nicolas Normand, architect and resident at the Villa, made 70 unique prints. These are the first views of Egypt printed on paper as well as the only prints made by Maxime Du Camp.