Photo album with photographs of monuments in France
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
Photo album with 70 leaves and 70 prints. The spine and corner pieces are of green linen. The front and back covers have a marbled motif, as do the endpapers. A sticker with the number '23' is attached to the spine. The album contains photos of monuments in France: cathedrals (including those of Rouen, Chartres, and Reims), castles (including those of Blois, Chambord, and Pierrefonds), town halls (La Rochelle, Compiègne), a palace of justice (Rouen), a hospital (Beaune), city palaces (Hôtel de Bourgtheroulde in Rouen, Hôtel de Cluny in Paris), etc. Most of the photos were made by Médéric Mieusement (1840-1905), a Frenchman who, since 1873, worked as a traveling photographer documenting historical monuments for the Commission des Monuments Historiques. Additionally, there are some photos by Paul Robert (1865-1898), to whom Mieusement transferred his work for the Commission in 1890.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description