Hotel de ville, vue d'ensemble prise du quai / heliogre. de E. Baldus. – Vintage Print
(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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This rare historic print captures Hotel de ville, vue d'ensemble prise du quai / heliogre. de E. Baldus. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Hotel de ville, vue d'ensemble prise du quai / heliogre. de E. Baldus.
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Taken from the riverbank, this overall view shows the Hôtel de Ville as seen from the quai along the Seine, with a bridge included in the scene. It is plate 60 in a book of sixty heliogravure plates documenting the building's reconstruction, published in Paris in 1884. The original town hall was badly damaged by fire during the Paris Commune in 1871, and the architects Théodore Ballu and Deperthes rebuilt it in the early 1880s. The photographer, E. Baldus, is best known for his architectural and landscape work, and the photogravure process reproduced the fine detail of his original photographs.
| Created / published | Paris, Librairie centrale d'architecture, Des Fossez et cie, 1884. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photogravure. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1880-1890.Photogravures 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Reconstruction de l'Hôtel de ville de Paris, par T. Ballu ... et Deperthes ... motifs de décoration extérieure; soixante planches en héliogravure par E. Baldus, plate 60. |
| Subjects | Hôtel de ville (Paris, France)--1880-1890. City & town halls--France--Paris--1880-1890. Bridges--France--Paris--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,301 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-204486 |
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