The author [Alexis Sayer] from a photograph by Bingham (Paris) – Historic Photo Reproduction
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with The author [Alexis Sayer] from a photograph by Bingham (Paris), a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The author [Alexis Sayer] from a photograph by Bingham (Paris)
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Alexis Soyer, the French-born chef who ran the kitchen at London's Reform Club, appears in this frontispiece engraving. Soyer went to the Crimea in 1855 to reform army cookery and designed a portable field stove for the troops. The engraving was made from a photograph by Bingham of Paris and introduced *Soyer's Culinary Campaign*, published in London in 1857, which describes that work. The record spells the name "Sayer," but the book's title and Soyer's reputation point to the chef. The piece also shows how publishers turned photographs into engravings before halftone printing made it easy to reproduce photographs on the printed page.
| Created / published | 1857 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Photograph by Bingham. Illus. in: Sayer's Culinary Campaign (London, 1857) frontis. Bitting Collection. No ref. copy. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.I.; Ph. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 933 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-150982 |
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