Lot 247: Ponti, Carlo 1820 Sagno, Ticino (Switzerland) - 1893 Venice

Four sights of Venice: a) St.: Mark´s Place with Doge´s Palace, sight of Isola San Giorgio Maggiore; b) Palazzo Pesaro; c) Bridge of Sighs; d) Gondola, in the background Doge´s Palace and San Marco. 1860s. Four vintages. Albumin prints on original supporting cardboard. a) 26,2 x 35,3 cm (32 x 45,4 cm); b) 25,6 x 32,5 cm (30,1 x 46,1 cm); c) 35,4 x 27,1 cm (37,3 x 28,7 cm); d) 22,7 x 33,7 cm (31,3 x 43,8 cm). b) at the lower left cardboard´s corner photographer´s blindstamp: "Ponti, Riva dei Schiavoni, Venezia" as well as titled in pencil; c) in the lower right corner numbered within negative. a) picture´s lower left corner slightly stained; d) slightly stained; a)-d) each cardboard with slight traces of dirt, cardboard´s coners and margins slightly bumped; d) reverse remains of former mounting.: Literature: Dorothea Ritter, Venedig in frühen Photographien von Domenico Bresolin "Pittore fotografo". Heidelberg: Edition Braus, 1995. Comp. fig. p. 194-199.