![[3735820] Portrait of A. Toussaint, Signed and Inscribed to Mr. & Mrs. Frank Lambert. Photograph by Edward George Mevs & Co., Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1910. photographer Edward George Mevs.](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735820.jpg?auto=webp&v=1771625879)
Portrait of A. Toussaint, Signed and Inscribed to Mr. & Mrs. Frank Lambert. Photograph by Edward George Mevs & Co., Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1910.
Haitian studio portrait inscribed and signed in Port-au-Prince, 1910
A crisp early twentieth-century studio portrait of a young man in formal attire, produced by Ed. G. Mevs & Co. in Port-au-Prince. The photograph is expertly composed, depicting the sitter in a half-length pose, poised and immaculately dressed in a light suit, waistcoat, and bow tie. The verso is inscribed: “Best regards to Mr. & Mrs. Frank Lambert / Souvenir d’un ami / 1910 / [signed] A. Toussaint / Port-au-Prince (Haïti).”
As documented by Princeton University’s Firestone Library, Edward George Mevs, a New York–born photographer, maintained close connections between Haiti and the United States, traveling frequently between Port-au-Prince and New York, and contributing cyanotypes to the Illustrated Souvenir Album of Haiti (1895).
Description: Portrait of A. Toussaint, Signed and Inscribed to Mr. & Mrs. Frank Lambert. Photograph by Edward George Mevs & Co., Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1910.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Ed. G. Mevs & Co., Photographers, 1910. Albumen photograph (oval image, 5¼ x 3¾ in.) on original photographer’s gray embossed mount (overall 9 x 6 in.). Inscribed in ink on verso. Toning to mount; image itself in near fine condition.
[3735820]Price: $125.00