Recife de Pernambuco mostrando o vapor Pará da linha nacional dentro do parto e hum vapor estrangeiro no ancoradouro de fora

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Recife de Pernambuco mostrando o vapor Pará da linha nacional dentro do parto e hum vapor estrangeiro no ancoradouro de fora

Creator

Marc Ferrez

Photographer · 1843–1923

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Marc Ferrez was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, into a family of artists that originally hailed from France. After being educated in Paris, he returned to Brazil, where he began to photograph the urban landscape of Rio de Janeiro in the 1860s. He established his own studio in 1865 specializing in landscape photography. Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil, himself an amateur photographer and one of the

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Date
1875–1876
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
Brazilian
Department
Photographs
Institution
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A vignette style image with a dark border, showing a steamship called the "Pará" from the national shipping line. In the background is the reef that creates the harbor. Smoke is visible in the foreground, coming up from below the frame.

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