Michel Dumas

Day of Celebration - Original Photograph By Michel Dumas - Late 19th Century

Late 19th Century

Vintage Photo of Painting by F. Vinea - Feast is a vintage photograph realized in the early 20th Century.  The photo belongs to Albumen of historical painting, photographs, meticulo...

Vintage Photo of Painting is a vintage photograph realized in the early 20th Century.  The photo belongs to Albumen of historical painting, photographs, meticulously captured. Good...

The Old Days - Historical Photo  is a black and white vintage photo, silver salt print, realized in the early 20th century.  It belongs to historical album including historical mome...

Vintage Photo of Painting is a vintage photograph realized in the early 20th Century.  The photo belongs to Albumen of historical painting, photographs, meticulously captured. Good...

"Sidewalk Club of the Motherlode" a Lithobrome photograh by Sigismund Blumann (American, 1872-1956). Signed "Sigismund Blumann" lower right. Titled "Sidewalk Club of the Motherlode" on verso. Image size, 11.25"H x 13.25"W. Between 1923 and 1932, his pictures were accepted at photographic salons in Amsterdam, Toronto, Rochester, Seattle, and Los Angeles. In 1927, a one-person exhibition of his bromoil prints traveled to camera clubs in Chicago, Akron, Cincinnati, and New York. In addition to bromoil, a process that yields pointillistic images, Blumann utilized such unusual processes as kallitype (Vandyke brown), lithobrome, and pastelograph (the latter two probably his own inventions) to create original photographs using chemical processes he invented. Sigismund Blumann (1872–1956) (figure 1) was a prominent tastemaker in Californian photography during the 1920s and 1930s. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area for his entire career, he edited magazines, wrote books, and made creative photographs. From 1924 to 1933 Blumann edited Camera Craft, the leading West Coast photographic monthly. Subsequently he established his own periodical, Photo Art Monthly, which he published until 1940. In these two magazines — for over fifteen years — Blumann found a large audience of mainstream pictorial photographers. In addition, he wrote five instructional books on photography...

19th Century Picture Printed on Paper Spanish Scene with Framed

Framed 46 x 57.50 in13 Printed by L. Angerer. Engraved by Paul Sigmund Habelmann after the original oil painting by Ludwig Knaus. The inscription "Wie die Alten sungen, so zwitschern...

A beautiful lithographe, John Knox administerine the first protestant sacrament, during the siege of the castle of st Andrew 1547, printed by William Bonner esq. Royal Scottish A...