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Paperbound. Etat : NEW. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. . Fully illustrated with . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . The NG's website notes: 53 paintings by Titian were exhibited in celebration of the 500th anniversary of Titian's birth. Co-organizers were the Commune di Venezia, Assessorato alla Cultura, the Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali, the Soprintendenza per i Beni Artistici e Storici de Venezia, and the National Gallery of Art with Galileo Industrie Ottiche, S.p.A., Venice. This was the first comprehensive Titian exhibition since 1935 and the first ever in the United States. A public symposium coordinated by the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts (CASVA), Titian's Venice, was held on January 26. On crowded weekdays and weekends free exhibition passes were distributed as necessary on a first-come, first-served basis. David A. Brown, curator of southern Renaissance painting at the National Gallery, was the exhibition curator. Gaillard Ravenel and Mark Leithauser designed the exhibition, and Gordon Anson designed the lighting.…

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Ca 1875. Photograph with printed caption. Verso with 23 line description of the hotel, as well as, underneath, an 11 line plug for "C. E. Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery". Printed, in red, vertical note to verso left side: "Carriages and Buggies Hired at Half the Rates of San Francisco." Recto with albument photograph of the hotel. Card: 3-1/4" x 5". Photo: 2-3/4" x 4-5/8" "Oaklandâs first large hotel, the Grand Central, at 12th Street from Webster to Harrison, was built in 1872 and destroyed by a fire which started on March 9th, 1880 . It was designed and originally co-owned by Samuel Merritt and Captain P. S. Wilcox, The 1874 Oakland City directory called the building one of the most expensive in the city. Covering a full city block, the building was in the style of Italian architecture with a Mansard roof, and was 4 stories high with 3 towers (probably above these 4 stories). A porch led from each entrance all the way to the sidewalk, making dismounting from carriages convenient even in rain or sun. âThe vestibule at the main entrance has a tesselated flooring of artificial marble. The ceiling rises eighteen feet in the clear. Laurel, oak, and walnut are represented in the graining, which has been executed with considerable care.â Other modern features included an elevator and telegraph office, and suites were available in addition to private rooms." [Oakland Wiki] Watkins is, of course, one of the seminal names in mid-19th C. western photography. This trade card hales from just before Watkins lost his gallery, "apparently after defaulting on a loan from his financial backer, J. J. Cook" who then sold the materials to Isiah West Taber. Cf. Palmquist, PIONEER PHOTOGRAPHERS, p. 581. We find only one OCLC holding of this Watkin's trade card, at the Bancroft. Curiously enough, the extensive Carleton Watkins website, devoted to the photographer's life & body of work [including ephemera & trade cards], does not list the item. Rare. Some age-toning to card. Minor fading to the photograph. Overall, a VG survivor. Now housed in a clear mylar holder.…