Item Summary

Portfolio containing 25 (of 26) albumen prints.

Descriptive Information

Title
Athens / photographed by W. J. Stillman.
Call Number
HSV/South 15/GC131/Album/Stillman, William/Athens GA 2008.00003
Identifier
ark:/88435/02871534p
Publisher
[London?] : [F. S. Ellis], [approximately 1869?]
Language
English
Date Created
1869
Extent
1 portfolio : photographs ; 47 x 36 cm
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 : Purchased with funds from the Friends of the Princeton University Library.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Title from portfolio.
A selection of 25 views from this series (with one small frontispiece image) was published in 1870 by the London firm, F.S. Ellis, printed in the carbon process by the Autotype Company. The title, as published, was The Acropolis of Athens: Illustrated Picturesquely and Architecturally in Photographs. The selection included in the present portfolio includes at least four variant images from those in the published work, while the majority of prints have been made from the same negatives.
Princeton copy 1 : Lacking plate no. 17.

Discovery Information

Subject
Landscapes—Greece—Athens—Photographs
Athens (Greece)—Antiquities—Photographs
Photograph albums
Albumen prints—19th century
Photographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count
52

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5af45406-07d8-400a-9269-2821802ebffa/manifest