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| 1. |  | James Robertson 1852-1854 (ca) View of the Faith Mosque, Mosque of Sultan Mehmet II Salt print, from paper negative 24.5 x 31 cm Bassenge Photography Auctions Courtesy of Bassenge, Berlin (Photography, Dec 2, 2009, Sale: 94, Lot: 4080) Mounted along edges to grey card. |
| 2. |  | James Robertson 1852-1854 Panoramic view over the Bosphorus with the Dolmabahce Sarayi (Sultan's Palace), Constantinople Salt print, from paper negative 25.5 x 32 cm Bassenge Photography Auctions Courtesy of Bassenge, Berlin (Photography, Dec 2, 2009, Sale: 94, Lot: 4079) Mounted along edges to cream card. |
| 3. |  | James Robertson 1853 Now ready, Photographic Views of Constantinople Advert Google Books Notes and Queries, No.212, November 19, 1853, p.506. Now ready, Photographic Views of Constantinople. Twenty Views of the most Important Buildings, taken by James Robertson, Esq. Imperial folio, half-bound morocco, price 61. 16s. 6d. Advert placed by Joseph Cundall, 168. New Bond Street. |
| 4. |  | James Robertson 1854 Constantinople. Tombeau du sultan Suleiman Papier salé d'après négatif sur verre au collodion 29.5 x 25.5 cm Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie Ancienne collection Georges Sirot |
| 5. |  | James Robertson 1854 Constantinople. Suleimanieh, côté est Papier salé d'après négatif sur verre au collodion 32 x 26.5 cm Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie Ancienne collection Georges Sirot |
| 6. |  | James Robertson 1854 Constantinople. Base de l'obélisque [de théodose] Papier albuminé d'après négatif sur verre au collodion 24.5 x 29.5 cm Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie Album du comte de Paris |
| 7. |  | James Robertson 1854 Environs de Constantinople. Sultan Selim. Scutari Papier albuminé d'après négatif sur verre au collodion 26 x 29.5 cm Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie Album du comte de Paris |
| 8. |  | James Robertson 1854 Constantinople. Mosquée Ahmedieh Papier salé d'après négatif sur verre au collodion 26 x 30 cm Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie Ancienne collection Alfred Armand |
| 9. |  | James Robertson 1854 (ca) Mosque of Shah Zaideh, Constantinople Salt print 10 x 258 mm Dominic Winter Book Auctions Auction Sale: Sept 3, 2008 - Lot: 136 Mosque of Shah Zaideh, Constantinople [so titled on mount], c. 1854, salt print side view of the mosque showing one minaret and seven figures in the foreground, including one of the Biato brothers ?, signed in ink lower left 'Robertson', 310 x 258 mm, mounted on card with pencil frame border and caption beneath, small closed tear to blank area of top right corner of image, mount a little spotted and soiled |
| 10. |  | James Robertson 1854 (ca) Constantinople Seraglio Salt print 9.6 x 11 in (image) 10 x 12 in (mount) Past to Present: Vintage Photo Gallery |
| 11. |  | James Robertson 1855 Imperial Gate of the Seraglio, view of the entrance of the Serail, Constantinople Albumenized salt print 29.8 x 25.6 cm Bassenge Photography Auctions Auction (17 June 2009, Sale 93, Lot 4264) Signed by the photographer in lower right corner in the negative as well as inscribed in lower edge in the negative, mounted along edges to cream card. Sylvie Aubenas/Jacques LacarriÞre. Voyage en Orient. Editions Hazan Paris 2001, ill. p. 185 (similar image). |
| 12. |  | James Robertson 1855 Mosque of Soliman the Magnificent (Solimanyah, Constantinople) Albumen print 25 x 30,4 cm Bassenge Photography Auctions Courtesy of Bassenge, Berlin (Photography, Sale: 90, Lot: 4125, Dec 5, 2007) Signed by the photographer in lower left corner and title in lower right in the negative, flush-mounted to original board (minimally soiled, slight traces of use in edges), titled in ink in lower right corner of mount. Lit.: Sylvie Aubenas/Jacques LacarriÞre. Voyage en Orient. Editions Hazan Paris 2001, ill. p. 182 (image from same period). |
| 13. |  | James Robertson 1855 (ca) Mosque of Sultan Mahmoud in Tophana [Istanbul] Albumen print 255 x 295 mm Dominic Winter Book Auctions Courtesy of Dominic Winter Book Auctions (sale: Thursday 6th March 2009, Lot: 1058) Signed 'Robertson' in ink lower left, mounted on a large album leaf. |
| 14. |  | James Robertson 1850s (early) A Turkish Man, Constantinople Salt print, overpainted 155 x 200 mm Daniella Dangoor |
| 15. |  | James Robertson 1853 (ca) Woman in outdoor costume, Constantinople Partially albumenized, hand-coloured salt print 18 x 14 cm Bassenge Photography Auctions Auction (17 June 2009, Sale 93, Lot 4261) Ken Jacobson. Odalisques and Arabesques: Orientalist Photography 1839 - 1925. London 2007, see p. 192 (similar image). |
| 16. |  | James Robertson 1850s (late) Street merchant, Constantinople Partially coated hand-coloured salt print 19.5 x 15 cm Bassenge Photography Auctions Auction (17 June 2009, Sale 93, Lot 4266) Sylvie Aubenas/Jacques LacarriÞre. Voyage en Orient. Editions Hazan Paris 2001, ill. p. 199 (image from same series). |
| 17. |  | James Robertson 1856 Photographic Establishment, Pera, Constantinople, under the Immediate Superintendence of James Robertson Advert Google Books Murray's Handbook Advertiser, 1856, p.30. bound with A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent: Being a Guide to Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Northern Germany, and the Rhine from Holland to Switzerland, Eleventh Edition (London: John Murray, 1856) PHOTOGRAPHIC ESTABLISHMENT, PERA, CONSTANTINOPLE, UNDER THE IMMEDIATE SUPERINTENDENCE OF JAMES ROBERTSON, CHIEF ENGRAVER TO THE IMPERIAL OTTOMAN MINT. VIEWS OF SEBASTOPOL, BALACLAVA, AND KAMIESCH. CHARACTERISTIC GROUPS OF THE OFFICERS AND MEN. Taken during the Siege. VIEWS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS OF CONSTANTINOPLE. GROUPS AND ORIENTAL COSTUMES. Coloured from the Life. ANTIQUITIES OF ATHENS. This Establishment is situated in the main Street of Pera, and is open every Day (Sundays excepted) from Nine till Dusk. |
| 18. |  | James Robertson 1855 Port de Balaklava pendant la guerre de Crimée (View of Balaklava Harbour during the Crimean War) [Title incorrect: View of Kamiesch] Salted paper print from wet collodion on glass negative, Mounted on paper Rijksmuseum Copyright © Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (RP-F-F00108) This print has the handwritten French caption "Port de Balaklava pendant la guerre de Crimée" on the mount which is incorrect. The view is not of Balaklava, which is surrounded by steep hills, but of the French-controlled port of Kamiesch to the west of Sevastopol. [pers. email, David Jones to Alan Griffiths, 4 April 2013] |
| 19. |  | James Robertson 1855, September (ca) Balaklava [Crimean War] Photographic print University of Nottingham Manuscripts and Special Collections, Newcastle (Clumber), Reference number: 2006-12/06-3114m Image cleaned and adjusted. |
| 20. |  | James Robertson 1855 Balaklava Harbour Albumen print National Army Museum Negative No. 71293, Accession No. NAM. 1968-10-73 |
| 21. |  | James Robertson 1855 The Leander in the Port of Balaclava Salt print 21,8 x 15,1 cm Bloomsbury Auctions - Rome Bloomsbury, Rome (Nov 10, 2008, Sale 17, Lot 19) Taken during the Crimean War. Published in in James Lawrence, 1854-56 Crimea. The war with Russia from Contemporary Photographs, Van Nostrand, 1981, pag.71. |
| 22. |  | James Robertson 1856, May Officers of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment, Camp Sebastopol Salt print Pennsylvania State University Library Special Collections Library, Henisch Collection, Some of the last British troops in the Crimea, left there to destroy the captured Russian fortifications in Sebastopol. This print has been carefully annotated by someone who knew all the people shown, and is inscribed: "18th Royal Irish Regiment. Camp Sebastopol, May 1856." |
| 23. |  | James Robertson 1854 The camp of the 3rd Grenadier Guards Private collection http://www.florence-nightingale-avenging-angel.co.uk/scutari.htm (Accessed: 1 April 1854 - the website "Florence Nightingale Historical Bulletin" is run by author Hugh Small. The photograph is credited to the collection of Keith Smith.) "…shows the camp of the 3rd Grenadier Guards with the barracks (later the Barrack Hospital and now the Selimiye Barracks) in the background. Lines to the Selimiye mosque and to the General Hospital (the building on the left) locate the site … This would now be on the railway tracks and has presumably been excavated. Even if it were possible now to stand in the same spot, the new Marmara University building would probably obscure the view of the barracks." |
| 24. |  | James Robertson 1855, Autumn British graves at Cathcart's Hill Salt print Pennsylvania State University Library Special Collections Library, Henisch Collection Battle of Inkerman, Sebastopol, in the Crimean War. Cathcart's Hill, a promontory overlooking Sebastopol, was used as an observation post and as a graveyard for British officers killed at the battle of Inkerman (5 Nov. 1854). It was named after a British general who died in that engagement. At the center of the picture is a large gravestone on which a Russian inscription has been carved -- an appeal to Russians not to desecrate the site. |
| 25. |  | James Robertson 1855 Interior of the Malakoff Fortress Salt print Pennsylvania State University Library Special Collections Library, Henisch Collection Interior of the Malakoff, one of the main defenses of Sebastopol, after its capture by the French on 8 Sept. 1855. One of the best-known photographs by James Robertson,this was used as the source of many engravings, exhibited in London, and reviewed in the Illustrated London News. The capture of the Malakoff fort marked the climax of the Crimean War, although the Peace Treaty was not signed until the end of March 1856. |
| 26. |  | James Robertson 1855 (ca) View of Sebastopol from Studies of the Crimean War Salt print Charles Schwartz Ltd Courtesy of Charles Schwartz |
| 27. |  | James Robertson 1855 (ca) View of Sebastopol from Studies of the Crimean War Salt print 9 x 11.75 in (229 x 298 mm) Charles Schwartz Ltd Courtesy of Charles Schwartz |
| 28. |  | James Robertson 1855 The Vorontsov Ravine: 'The Valley of Death' Albumen print National Army Museum Negative No. 4448, Accession No. NAM. 1972-03-3-12 |
| 29. |  | James Robertson 1855 Part of the French attack Sevastopol Salted paper print from wet collodion on glass negative, Mounted on paper Rijksmuseum Copyright © Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (RP-F-F00642) Different sources give this print the title "Interior of the Mamelon Vert". The Mamelon Vert, near Sebastopol, was captured by the French army on 7th June 1855 during the Crimean War. On the 8th September the French took the Malakhov bastion and presumably this photograph was taken around this time. |
| 30. |  | James Robertson 1855 Interior of the Redan, Sevastopol Albumen print National Army Museum Negative No. 4450, Accession No. NAM. 1980-11-27-8 |
| 31. |  | James Robertson 1858 (published) The Guards at Scutari Book plate Google Books W.H. Russell The British Expedition to the Crimea Revised edition (London: G. Routledge & Co., 1858), Frontispiece. In a contemporary advertisement for this book one of the promotional lines was that the picture of "The Guards at Scutari" was based upon a photograph by Robertson. Interestingly in the book James Robertson or Roger Fenton are never mentioned. |
| 32. |  | James Robertson 1856, 1 January Crimean Photographs - James Robertson Magazine page Google Books Photographic Notes - Journal of the Photographic Society of Scotland and the Manchester PHotographic Society, Vol.I, No.I, January 1, 1856, p.10. Crimean Photographs Messrs. Sutton and Blanquart-Evrard, beg to announce that they are in correspondence with Mr. James Robertson, of Constantinople on the subject of publishing a series of sixty Crimean Photographs, recently taken by him. The specimens which he has forwarded to them are from magnificent Negatives. They have proposed to publish them at al extremely moderate price, which will place these valuable works within the reach of a large circle of purchasers. More of this matter on the receipt of Mr Robertson's reply; which they trust may be favorable to the project. |
| 33. |  | James Robertson 1860, 1 May Panoramic view of Sebastopol by Mr. Robertson of Constantinople Magazine page Google Books "Plan and Panoramic Perspective", p.120-122 in Photographic Notes, Vol.V, No.98, May 1, 1860, p.121. Towards the close of the Crimean war Mr. Robertson, of Constantinople, took from the same station three views of Sebastopol, so as to form when mounted side by side a sort of panoramic view, including an angle of 120¦. Although this triple picture possessed extraordinary interest, one could not help regretting the defects introduced by joining three separate prints; for these being better in definition and also lighter in the centre than at the sides the three patches of light and two dark joinings did not look well. This triple picture could have been taken at one operation by a panoramic lens, and the definition would then have been equally good and the light equally distributed along the horizontal line; the effect in other respects remaining the same. |
| 34. |  | James Robertson 1850-1875 (ca, check) L' Acropole d'Athenes Photographic print 28.8 x 38.4 cm (image) 46.3 x 61.2 (mount) Musée Condé © direction des musées de France, © musée Condé, 1999, Inventory No: PH No 866, Joconde: 00000105923 The attribution to James Robertson is not certain. |
| 35. |  | James Robertson 1854 [Acropolis, Athens] Salted paper print from wet collodion negative 25.9 x 29.1 cm (image) 31.4 x 35.3 cm (mount) J. Paul Getty Museum Getty Research Library, Special Collections and Visual Resources, Gary Edwards collection of photographs of Greece, 1842-1959, Id: 92.r.84_03-01 View of the Acropolis showing the Frankish Tower and the Beulé Gate. |
| 36. |  | James Robertson 1854 (ca) Porch of the Caryatids, Athens, Greece Albumen print 9 x 11 in Private collection of Steven Evans |
| 37. |  | James Robertson n.d. Peristyles (colonnades), Temple of Jupiter Olympius, Athens, Greece Albumen print 28 x 24.5 cm The Courtauld Institute of Art Copyright: © Courtauld Institute of Art , Conway Collections |
| 38. |  | James Robertson 1855 (ca) A ruined temple, Greece [The Propylaea of the Acropolis, Athens] Albumen print 23.7 x 25.9 cm National Science and Media Museum |
| 39. |  | James Robertson 1853-1854 View from the northeast of the northern atrium of the Erechteion, Athens Albumen print 37 x 27 cm Bassenge Photography Auctions Courtesy of Bassenge, Berlin (Photography, Dec 2, 2009, Sale: 94, Lot: 4081) Lit.: Dorothea Ritter. Im Lichte des Helios. Griechenland in fruhen Photographien aus der Sammlung Siegert. Munich 1999. |
| 40. |  | James Robertson 1853 (ca) Temple of Jupiter Olympius Albumen print 31.90 x 25.00 cm (12 1/2 x 9 13/16 ins) (image) Cleveland Museum of Art Gift of Paula and Robert Hershkowitz in honor of Tom Hinson, Accession No.: 2009.421 |
| 41. |  | James Robertson n.d. Temple of Athena Aphaia, Aegina, Attica, Greece Albumen print 23 x 30 cm The Courtauld Institute of Art Copyright: © Courtauld Institute of Art , Conway Collections |
| 42. |  | James Robertson 1855 (ca) The wailing wall, Jerusalem Albumen print 30.2 x 24.5 cm Pierre Spake Fine Art |
| 43. |  | James Robertson 1857 Damascus gate. Jerusalem [Porte de Damas] Papier salé d'après négatif sur verre au collodion 25 x 31 cm Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie Album du comte de Paris |
| 44. |  | James Robertson 1857 (ca) Bethlehem from the convent of the nativity Albumen print 25 x 30 cm Dominic Winter Book Auctions Courtesy of Dominic Winter Book Auctions (sale: Thursday 6th March 2009, Lot: 1057) Requires confirmation of the full title. |
| 45. |  | James Robertson 1860 (ca) Street Scene, Cairo Salt print 12 x 10 1/4 Charles Nes Photography LLC New York - Paris |