[Albumen photographs in Album of the passion-play at Ober-Ammergau]
Description:
"60 Albumen photographs of the play by Joseph Albert. Jackson petitioned the King to allow him to order 200 sets of these photographs for this edition...The sixty albumen prints show all of the principle tableaux of the Passion Play."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 48
Forms part of the David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction
In: Album of the passion-play at Ober-Ammergau / sixty photographs of the scenes and tableaux of the passion-play, taken ... by the court-photographer Albert, of Munich ; a series of etchings, in heliotype, from the pen and ink drawings of "The homes of Ammergau" by Eliza Greatorex, and engravings on wood ... and a full account of the Passion-play, with the text and songs of the chorus, by John P. Jackson. Munich ; London : Joseph Albert, 1874 -- Title supplied by cataloger