Bagnères de Bigorre, Pyrénées

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Artist Farnham Maxwell Lyte(British, 1828–1906)British, 1828–1906

CultureBritish

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Bagnères de Bigorre, Pyrénées

Date1858

Place depictedBagnères-de-Bigorre, France

MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative

DimensionsImage: 7 5/8 × 10 3/8 in. (19.4 × 26.4 cm)
Sheet: 7 5/8 × 10 3/8 in. (19.4 × 26.4 cm)
Mount: 14 5/16 × 18 1/4 in. (36.4 × 46.4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan Morgenstern and James Edward Maloney

Object number2017.127

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Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Provenance[Serge Kakou, Paris]; purchased by MFAH, 2017.
Published References Maxwell Lyte's photogrphs in the Pyrenees are discussed in the following: * Bulletin de la Société Ramond, n° 1-2, 1906 * H. Saule-Sorbé, “Les Pyrénées photographiées de Farnham Maxwell Lyte”, in Bulletin de la Société Ramond, Année 2004, 139e année, Bagnères-de-Bigorre, 2005, pp. 103-129 * Pyrénées en images, de l’œil à l’objectif, 1820-1860, catalogue, Musée national du château de Pau, RMN, 1995. • Pyrénées, voyages photographiques de 1839 à nos jours, sous la direction d’H. Saule-Sorbé, Editions du Pin à Crochets, Pau, 1998. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Stamped in red ink, recto, bottom right corner over image: Maxwell Lyte [underlined]
Inscribed in pencil, recto, lower right below image: Bagnères de Bigorre (Etablissement de)
Inscribed in pencil, recto, bottom right: 3
Inscribed in pencil, mount verso, left edge: 3.
Inscribed in pencil, mount verso, bottom left: 21841-04

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