William Notman's Photographic Selections (1863)

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Title
William Notman's Photographic Selections (1863)
Abstract
An examination of Montreal photographer William Notman's (1826-1891) book Photographic Selections, a portfolio published by Montreal printer John Lovell in 1863 for approximately 360 subscribers. It was the first art history book printed in Canada. The author points out that the selection of forty-seven plates included two of Notman's own landscape images, "Fort Chambly, near Montreal, q.c." (1863) and "Road Side, Lake of Two Mountains", as well as ten photographic copies of engravings after Renaissance and Baroque paintings and twenty-seven photographs of pictures by contemporary British, French and American artists, some of which came from local collectors. The remaining eight images of recent British and North American paintings in Montreal collections were originally photographed by Notman.
Publication
Journal of Canadian Art History/Annales d'histoire de l'art
Volume
Vol. 33
Issue
no. 1
Pages
16-45
Date
2012
Language
en
URL
Citation
Lerner, Loren. “William Notman’s Photographic Selections (1863).” Journal of Canadian Art History/Annales d’histoire de l’art Vol. 33, no. 1 (2012): 16–45. http://jcah-ahac.concordia.ca/fr/archive/2012_33-1.
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