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Carol Szathmari
Metropolitan Cathedral, Bucharest, Romania
1866
Albumen print
3.9 x 4.3 ins
Archive Farms
LL/65129
Silber und Salz, Zur Fruzeit der Photographie im deutschen Sprachraum 1839-1860, Edition Braus, Koln, 1989, pg. 443
Same image appears in the "Album Alu M.S. Domnitoriulu Carolu" held at the Romanian Academy Library in Bucharest. After Prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was elected Prince Carol I of Romania in the year 1866, Szathmari accompanied him on his first reconnaissance journey throughout his new homeland, and the photos he took were published in the "Romania Album" conceived as a documentation of the ruler's new kingdom.
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