Photographs
Façade Alsacienne, Corps de Garde à Colmar
Photograph
Details
- Author / creator
- Adolphe Braun (French, 1812–1877)
- Object type
- Photograph
- Date or period
- c. 1870s
- Dimensions summary
- Image: 43.8 × 37.5 cm; Paper: 46.7 × 40.1 cm
- Photo process
- Carbon print
- Studio or series
- Adolphe Braun
- Place of origin
- France
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the Founder's Endowment, 2021
About this object
This German Renaissance structure was built in 1575 to be the town hall of Colmar but ended up becoming a guard house. Adolph Braun lived in another town in the same province, Alsace, and produced an extensive series of views of monuments and landscapes of the region. He marketed the images not just locally but throughout Europe and North America.
Materials and technique
Mammoth untrimmed carbon print
Signature and marks
Written in pencil on verso: "2000f"; Written in pencil on verso: "38"; Written in pencil on verso: "Andre 455"
