Fotógrafo Albert Levy. Fotografía antigua Boston. L'Architecture Americaine.135 Marlborough Street. Boston Massachussets.Actualización 2025
Esta fotografía representa una casa que existe todavía en la ciudad de Boston: 135 Marlborough Street. Boston Massachussets. Construida en 1880.
Estos datos nos los facilita el libro "American Victorian Architecture" escrito por Arnold Lewis en 1975 y publicado por Dover.
Este libro hace un detallado estudio de los tres Albumes que conforman el album de fotografía antigua america "L'Architecture Americaine" con imágenes de edificios públicos, edificios privados y edificios de los alrededores o suburbanos de ciudades americanas en 1880. Las fotos son de una gran calidad según nos remarca expresamente el autor del estudio Dr. Arnold Lewis.
Vèase también The Ryerson and Burnham Libraries
| Title/Project Name | Unidentified residence |
| Alternate Title/Project Name | House No. 4 |
| Street Address/Neighborhood | 135 Marlborough St.; Back Bay (neighborhood) |
| City | Boston |
| State/Province | Massachusetts |
| Country | United States |
| Date Designed or Built | c.1870-1880 |
| Architect/Designer/Creator | Cabot and Chandler |
| Date of View | 1883-1895 |
| View or Detail Type | Exterior |
| Image Notes | From Albert Levy's Architectural Photographic Series, Series 16, No. 61. Facade severely altered as of 2014. |
| Caption/Inscription Text | BLC: 61;written verso TLC: XVI - 61 |
| Photographer | Levy, Albert [New York City] |
| Digital Collection Name | Archival Image Collection |
| Archival Collection Name | Historic Architecture and Landscape Image Collection, c.1865-1973 (bulk 1890-1945) |
| Archival Subcollection Name | Architecture Photograph Collection |
| Provenance | Gift of Pond and Pond |
| Original Format Type | Photograph |
| Color Type | Toned |
| Physical Notes | good |
| Location of Original | MPDrawer 2 |
| Scanned By | Patrick Rogers |
| Website URL | https://www.artic.edu/archival-collections |
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| RBA Digital File name | 51194 |
Holders
Other holders
- Boston Public Library
- Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library: link
- Metropolitan Museum of Art: http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/department.asp?dep=19
- Jean Paul Getty Museum
- Ministère de Culture France
- George Eastman House --> http://collections.eastman.org/people/37442/albert-h-levy/objects
- Smithsonian institution (55): link
- Bibliotéques Patrimoniales de Paris
- University of Winsconsin
- University of Lousville
- Cornell University
- Worcester Art Museum
- Santa Barbara Museum of Art
- Architektur Sammlung of the Technische Hochschule in Munich. --> they own the three series of "L'Architecture Americaine".
- Ville de Paris: BHVP / Roger-Viollet.
- Leopold Eidlitz collection (see pdf)
- The Redwood Library and Athenæum (the
oldest lending library in America, and the oldest library building in
continuous use in the country. Founded in 1747) holds: "Albert Levy’s
Architectural Photographic Series 2 and 10, ca. 1880
Box 9". - We can read in his GUIDE TO ARCHITECTURAL RESOURCES:
Albert Levy was a French photographer born in 1847,
who studied and practiced in both the United States and
Europe. These two series were printed in New York by
Albert Levy and contain images from Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Washington,
D.C. Each photograph is numbered and identified on a
list that includes the type of building, location, and name
of the architect(s). There are a total of 54 silver gelatin
prints (9.5 x 7.75 inch) in this collection.
- The Russell Sturgis Photograph Collection at University Archives, Department of Special Collections, Washington University Libraries.
- National Gallery of Art (USA). Its library ows 28 pictures by Albert Levy. Most of them belong to the 3rd serie of L'Architecture Americaine.
- Harrison D. Horblit Collection of Early Photography --> Hotel Metropole, New York. (Levy, Albert, 1844-1907, French, creator, photographer)
- Département de Calvados Archive --> Villas et chalets pittoreques, petites maisons de champagne
Estas fotos están realizadas por un fotógrafo francés, Albert Levy, que , hacia 1880, se traslada a Nueva York recogiendo, para nuestra contemplación hoy día, los edificios realizados por los mejores y mas destacados arquitectos de la época. Constituyen un verdadero compendio de lo mejor de la arquitectura americana, la arquitectura victoriana y esta formada por 663 fotografías, casi una cuarta parte del catálogo de Levy de 1887 del cual se conserva un ejemplar en la BNF.
Las fotos de Levy se hayan en los mejores museos americanos: Getty, Avery Library, Art Institute Chicago, Library of Congress, CCA Canada.
Web with all data Albert Levy 2025
Albert Levy's Photographic Series of Modern American Architecture. Due to these series, Albert Levy is referenced as counterpart for Alinari in the United States (13).
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Albert Levy's Photographic Series of Modern American Architecture: Second Series, Country Dwellings. (16)
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Albert Levy's Photographic Series of Modern American Architecture: Ninth Series, Street Fronts. (16)
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Albert Levy's Photographic Series of Modern American Architecture: First Series, Private City Dwellings. (16)
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Albert Levy's Photographic Series of Modern American Architecture: Fifth Series, Messrs. Vanderbilt's Mansions. (16)
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Albert Levy's Photographic Series of Modern American Architecture: Tenth Series, Sea Shore Cottages and Country Houses. (16)
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Albert Levy's Photographic Series of Modern American Architecture: Twelfth Series, Modern Street Architecture of Berlin, Street Fronts and Apartment Houses. (16)
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Albert Levy's Photographic Series, the Fourteenth Series: Romanesque and Gothic Churches in the South of France (24)
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Albert Levy's Photographic Series of Modern American Architecture: Sixteenth Series, American Private City Dwellings. (16)
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Albert Levy's Architectural Photographic Series : Lévy, Albert. 1895 (16)
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Albert Levy's Architectural Photographic Series: Twenty-fourth series.(Berne, Lucerne, Zurich and other Swiss cities and towns) (21)
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Albert Levy's Architectural Photographic Series : Thirty-Fifth Series, Sea Shore Cottages And Country Houses, Bar Harbor, Mount Desert, Maine : Lévy, Albert. 1895 (16)
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Albert Levy's Architectural Photographic Series: Thirty-First Series, Street Fronts, Stores, Office , Etc : Lévy, Albert. c1884 (15)
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Albert Levy's Architectural Photographic Series : Thirty-Sixth Series, Sea-Shore Cottages, Etc., Newport, R.I., And Long Branch, N.J : Lévy, Albert. 1895 (15)
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Albert Levy's Photographic Series Of Modern American Architecture. : Lévy, Albert. 1883
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Albert Levy's Architectural Photographic Series: 3rd series, French Gothic and Renaissance, Civil and Domestic Architecture, New York: Albert Levy, 1884. (14)
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Albert Levy's Architectural Photographic Series: 33rd series, American City and Country Residences, etc, New York: Albert Levy, 1884. (14)
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Architectural Photographic Series, city houses/Levy: 1 album, 38 leaves of plates: photographs 36x46 cm. New York, Albert Levy (between 1880-1895?). (20).
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Signature by Albert Levy in "Albert Levy's Architectural photographic series"
In some cases, in the Photographic series the Photographs are titled, numbered and mounted on blue card stock. The card stock is embossed
"Architectural & Decorative Books, Albert Levy, NY, 77, University".
Studies/shops:
- He had the following studies in New York
- A study in 77 University Place, NY in 1870-1878 (23)
- A study in 4 Bond Street, NY in 1880 (2)- A study in 34 1/2 Pine Street, NY in 1887 (3).
- At the same time he also had a study in France, 19 rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin, Paris (3).
- The Bibliothèque Nacionale de France also has another reference in 1901: "22 janvier 1901, A. Lévy, 4 av. Pinel, Asnières" (3)
He is also referenced as bookseller (2).
Manufacturer:
Albert Levy is referenced as the photographer who began the manufacture of the gelatin dry plates in 1878. All references can be found in the book Photography and the American Scene. A social history (1839-1889) by Robert Taft. See (5), (6), (7) and (8) for full text.
Albert Levy is also identified as "early competitor of Eastman, NYC" (9). This reference relates also to the book by Robert Taft (10).
Editor:
The Bibliothèque Nacionale the France (2) and the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library (20) own a catalogue of 2500 titles by Albert Levy as editor in New York and Paris for Architectural photography.
- Photographs by Levy in the Halic Collection: Art Institute Chicago
- Culture France
L’assimilation du régionalisme dans l’architecture balnéaire
L’apparition du style néo-normand est sans doute la plus précoce mais aussi la plus ambiguë du régionalisme. D’après Claude Mignot, le créateur du type de la villa néo-normande
semble être l’architecte caennais Jacques Baumier père. Dès 1860, celui-ci bâtit les dépendances de la villa Suzanne de Louis-Léon Paris à Houlgate et, deux ans plus tard, sur la plage de Trouville la Maison normande pour Adolphe Cordier. Elles seront suivies de trois autres réalisations sur les hauteurs de la même station. Il faut attendre une vingtaine d’années pour voir se répandre la seconde génération de villas sur toute la côte normande, signées par de nombreux architectes comme
Jacques Baumier fils, Edouard Papinot, Adrien Jory père et fils, E. Mauclerc, G. Pichereau
Estudio sobre la arquitectura Balnearia. Tipos de Viviendas
Jacques Baumier Wikipedia - The Bibliothèque Nacionale the France own a catalogue of 2500 titles by Albert Levy as editor in New York and Paris for Architectural photography.
- See this Catalogue thanks to the new service of Gallica Library ( perhaps the best Library on the web )for embed it in a blog
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