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Title: Vues d'Algérie prises au daguerréotype
Date (inclusive): 1847
Number: 94.R.3
Creator/Collector:
Bettinger, Théodore
Physical Description:
22 items
(lithographs)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
reference@getty.edu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: The collection comprises 22
daguerreotypes reproduced as lithographs of Algeria in the 1840s primarily depicting
indigenous and colonial architecture in Algiers, Constantine, Stora, Philippeville (Skikda),
Blida, and Oran.
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Language: Collection material is in
French .
Little is known about the French daguerreotypist, Théodore Bettinger, who worked primarily
in Algeria.
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Vues d'Algérie prises au daguerréotype, 1847, Getty Research Institute, Research Library,
Accession no. 94.R.3
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa94r30
Acquired in 1994.
Processed and cataloged by Beth Ann Guynn in 2004; finding aid encoded by Holly Larson with
grant funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) in 2010. Finding
aid revided by Guynn in 2021.
Scope and Content of Collection
Twenty-two black-and-white and color lithographs of Algeria made in the 1840s emphasize
indigenous and colonial architecture in Algiers, Constantine, Stora, Philippeville (Skikda),
Blida, and Oran.
Twelve images of Algiers include panoramic views of the city taken from the ocean, the
Casbah, and the port. There are views of the Casbah from outside the city walls, views of
the port, and a view of the city walls and fortresses from the ocean. Buildings depicted
include the Djamaՙa el Djedid (Mosque of the Fishermen's Wharf) and the Abder-Rahman
mosques, buildings along the narrow rue d'Anfreville, and the interior of an Algerian home
with men smoking in a trellis-covered courtyard. The European presence is evident in images
of Europeans shopping at a market on the Place Mahon, French soldiers outside the city
walls, and in a view of the equestrian statue in the Place du Gouvernement commemorating the
French conquest of Algeria.
Six views of Constantine and environs include panoramas of the city, buildings on a cliff
above a wooded hillside; an aqueduct running through a gorge; a local encampment and market;
and waterfalls in the Oued al Kébir (Rhumel) river.
Other images include a view of a troop of French soldiers marching in formation at the port
village of Stora; a view of Philippeville (Skikda) emphasizing French buildings on the
cliffs; a view of Blida showing the Place du marché and surrounding buildings; and a
panoramic view of Oran from the water.
Twenty-one of the lithographs were made after daguerreotypes by the French photographer,
Théodore Bettinger. One lithograph is after a drawing by the painter Jules-Michel
Chandelier. The lithography was executed by Henri Walter (15 images); Henri Walter and
Aubrun (one image); and Jean-Jacques Champin (six images).
Editor: Wild éditeur, 15, rue de la Banque (Place de la Bourse) Paris. Lithography: Lith.
de J. Rigo, Lebref et Cie. Printer (variously): Dubos frères et Marest à Alger; Imp: Decan,
7, rue Richer; or: Imp. Lemercier à Paris.
Individual print titles are from the captions printed on the mounts. Lithographer and
printer credits printed on the sheets are recorded in the individual scope and content
notes.
Arranged in a single series:
Series I. Vues d'Algérie prises au daguerréotype,
1847.
Lemercier, Alfred
Aubrun
Chandelier, Jules-Michel
Champin, Jean
Jacques, 1796-1860
Walter, Henri,
1934-
Wild
Decan
Dubos frères et Marest
J. Rigo, Lebref et Cie
City walls -- Algeria
Harbors -- Algeria
Architecture, Colonial -- Algeria
Streets -- Algeria
Vernacular architecture -- Algeria
Islamic architecture -- Algeria
Mosques -- Algeria
Algiers (Algeria) -- Description and travel
Algeria -- Description and travel
Constantine (Algeria) -- Description and travel
Lithographs -- Algeria -- 19th century
Prints, French -- 19th century
Prints, Algerian -- 19th century
Lithographs -- France -- 19th century
Bettinger, Théodore