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Portrait D'Après Nature. Photographie au charbon de M. Ernest Edwards, de Londres.

Author: Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard (French, 1802–1872)

Dimensions Sheet: 32.1 × 24.6 cm (12 5/8 × 9 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession NumberKBR64.15
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPage from Sylvester Rosa Koehler's copy of Louis Blanquart-Evrard's "La Photographie."
ProvenanceBy 1898, Sylvester Rosa Koehler (b. 1837 - d. 1900; Lugt 1580), Boston, and Littleton, NH; 1898, gift of Koehler to the MFA. (Acquisition Date: October 20, 1898)

NOTE:
Koehler was the first Print Curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. The gift of Mr. Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.