You are bidding on a huge original antique print from an 1870s illustrated journal.

This is by far the most interesting antique photographer print I have found during my many years of collecting. For starters, it is HUGE (double folio size). It shows wedding photography circa the late 1870s. The photographer is behind his bellows view camera with a black cloth over his head. This is in the days of the daguerreotypes, tintypes and ambrotypes. The illustration is based on a picture by M. Dagnan-Bouveret in a Paris Salon. The bride and groom are posing, while family members watch. A man is smoking a stinky cigar while a young boy is grimacing from the smoke and strangle hold the man has on him!

It is very large (double folio size), measuring approximately 21.5 x 15.75 inches (54.5 x 40 cm). The picture fills most of the page, with a caption below. The back of this print is blank, meaning it was a rarer special supplement.

The print has a fold in the middle, where it was folded into the magazine long ago. Note that the fold line is clean and undamaged, because it was "tipped" into the binding. This was a luxury binding technique of that era, because the double page prints were free of binding holes down the center.

The page is in excellent condition. See scan for an accurate view of the condition.

This print will come with a Certificate of Authenticity.