LUIGI FIORILLO 1847-1898 LE BOMBARDEMENT D’ALEXANDRIE DU 11 JUILLET 1882 1882

LUIGI FIORILLO 1847-1898
Le bombardement d’Alexandrie du 11 Juillet 1882 1882
Fifty-one albumen prints on album with a folded printed map. Photographer’s name printed on paper from negative. Half cloth bound album, with title corners on the front piece, missing and worn spine. A folded single table is attached “Plan Croquis indiquant les maisons qui ont été brulées après le bombardement du 11 Juillet, dressé par l’ingénieur Ulisse Calvi”.
The album contains 51 prints and depicts the British bombing in 1882 to put down the anti-European riots.
7.76 x 10.35 in.
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A unique testimony of documentary photography from the end of
the 19th Century, collected by a master whose purpose was to offer
the world a realistic picture of everyday life. Luigi Fiorillo’s works
are now rare and the last exhibition dates back to 2014, at the
Palazzo Rosso in Genoa. Album in excellent condition.