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PHOTOGRAPHY - GEORGE DAVISON A group of 5 vintage photogravures, including views of Harlech, Essex ("The Onion Field" and "The Saltings"), and France, 4 SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER ("G. Davison") lower right beneath image, [c.1900-1920]; together with a first edition of "The Book of Harlech" by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1920 (6) image 1
PHOTOGRAPHY - GEORGE DAVISON A group of 5 vintage photogravures, including views of Harlech, Essex ("The Onion Field" and "The Saltings"), and France, 4 SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER ("G. Davison") lower right beneath image, [c.1900-1920]; together with a first edition of "The Book of Harlech" by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1920 (6) image 2
PHOTOGRAPHY - GEORGE DAVISON A group of 5 vintage photogravures, including views of Harlech, Essex ("The Onion Field" and "The Saltings"), and France, 4 SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER ("G. Davison") lower right beneath image, [c.1900-1920]; together with a first edition of "The Book of Harlech" by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1920 (6) image 3
PHOTOGRAPHY - GEORGE DAVISON A group of 5 vintage photogravures, including views of Harlech, Essex ("The Onion Field" and "The Saltings"), and France, 4 SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER ("G. Davison") lower right beneath image, [c.1900-1920]; together with a first edition of "The Book of Harlech" by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1920 (6) image 4
PHOTOGRAPHY - GEORGE DAVISON A group of 5 vintage photogravures, including views of Harlech, Essex ("The Onion Field" and "The Saltings"), and France, 4 SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER ("G. Davison") lower right beneath image, [c.1900-1920]; together with a first edition of "The Book of Harlech" by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1920 (6) image 5
PHOTOGRAPHY - GEORGE DAVISON A group of 5 vintage photogravures, including views of Harlech, Essex ("The Onion Field" and "The Saltings"), and France, 4 SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER ("G. Davison") lower right beneath image, [c.1900-1920]; together with a first edition of "The Book of Harlech" by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1920 (6) image 6
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PHOTOGRAPHY - GEORGE DAVISON
A group of 5 vintage photogravures, 4 SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER; together with a first edition of "The Book of Harlech" by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1920 (6)

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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PHOTOGRAPHY - GEORGE DAVISON

A group of 5 vintage photogravures, including views of Harlech, Essex ("The Onion Field" and "The Saltings"), and France, 4 SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER ("G. Davison") lower right beneath image, photogravures, all printed on Japanese paper, Harlech Castle print toned and light spotting, French view light overall spotting, early window-mounts, images typically approx. 180 x 240mm., French scene 120 x 95mm., trees 120 x 265mm., [c.1900-1920]; together with a first edition of "The Book of Harlech" by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1920 (6)

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Group of vintage photogravure prints by George Davison (1855-1930), including views in Essex, Harlech and the surrounding Welsh area.

Davison was an early champion of naturalism and pictorial photography, as exemplified by "An Old Farmstead (1888), taken with a pinhole camera to produce a 'soft focus', [which] had won a prize at the PSGB exhibition of 1890. Retitled The Onion Field, it became his most famous photograph, and was fairly typical of his impressionist style" (ODNB). Davison was a founding member of the Linked Ring, his work published by Alfred Stieglitz in Camera Works, and having made a fortune through his early involvement with George Eastman and Kodak, was able to establish "an extraordinary centre for the arts" (ODNB) at his home, Wern Fawr, near Harlech in Wales.

Davison images comprise: "The Onion Field", "The Saltings", "Harlech Castle", Trees in a landscape, and "Fountain, Market Place, Aix-Les-Bains".

Included with the lot is a copy of fellow pioneering photographer and close-friend Alvin Langdon Coburn's Book of Harlech (1920), which includes a view of Davison's home at Wern Fawr.

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