In the Library: Photography and Travel in Sargent’s Spain

J. E. Purdy (1859–1933, photographer), John Singer Sargent, 1903, cabinet card–mounted gelatin silver DOP photograph, Boston: J. E. Purdy (firm), National Gallery of Art Library, Department of Image Collections, Hertzmann Collection of Photographs of American Artists

Juan Laurent (1816–1886, photographer), Tudela to Bilbao: Logroño Railway Station, 1865, albumen silver photograph, Madrid: J. Laurent (firm), National Gallery of Art Library, Department of Image Collections

J. & C. Walker (active 1820–1895, print publisher, London), engraved foldout map of the Kingdom of Andalucía, in Richard Ford’s A Handbook for Travellers in Spain (1845), London: John Murray (firm), National Gallery of Art Library

José María Galván y Candela (1837–1899, engraver), etching and aquatint after Francisco Goya’s The Burial of the Sardine (1808–1812), in Selected Pictures of the Royal Academy of the Three Noble Arts of San Fernando (1872), Madrid: Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, National Gallery of Art Library, Department of Image Collections, René Huyghe Archive

Joseph Lacoste (1872–c. 1930, photographer), albumen silver photograph of Diego Velázquez’s Prince Baltasar Carlos on Horseback (1635–1636), 1900/1915, Madrid: J. Lacoste (firm), National Gallery of Art Library, Department of Image Collections 

Juan Laurent (1816–1886, photographer), Panorama of Ávila, c. 1870, albumen silver photograph, Madrid: J. Laurent (firm), National Gallery of Art Library, Department of Image Collections

Rafael Garzón Rodríguez (1863–1923, photographer), Retablo (Altar) by F. de Borgoña, Capilla Real, Granada, c. 1890, gelatin silver DOP photograph, Granada: Rafael Garzón (firm), National Gallery of Art Library, Department of Image Collections

Charles Mauzaisse (1823-1885, photographer), The Court of the Lions, Alhambra, Granada, 1862, albumen silver photograph, National Gallery of Art Library, Department of Image Collections

Juan Laurent (1816–1886, photographer), The Palace of Monserrate, Sintra, Portugal, 1869, albumen silver photograph, Madrid: J. Laurent (firm), National Gallery of Art Library, Department of Image Collections

Juan Laurent (1816–1886, photographer), The Fountain of Narcissus, Garden of the Prince, Palace of Aranjuez, c. 1880s, albumen silver photograph printed from a Gramstorff collodion negative, Boston: Soule later Gramstorff Art Publishing (firm) copying 1863 photograph by J. Laurent, National Gallery of Art Library, Department of Image Collections

Juan Laurent (1816–1886, photographer), Patio of the Acequia in the Generalife, Granada, c. 1881, albumen silver photograph, Madrid: J. Laurent (firm), National Gallery of Art Library, Department of Image Collections

Casiano Alguacil Blázquez (1832–1914, photographer), Inhabitants of Toledo (c. 1880s), in Spain: Toledo, Cordova, Granada, Seville, Valencia, Barcelona (1879/1894?), plate 23 from first of two albums of 189 albumen silver photographs, Madrid: J. Laurent (firm), National Gallery of Art Library, Department of Image Collections

Casiano Alguacil Blázquez (1832–1914, photographer), Inhabitants of Toledo (c. 1880s), in Spain: Toledo, Cordova, Granada, Seville, Valencia, Barcelona (1879/1894?), plate 24 from first of two albums of 189 albumen silver photographs, Madrid: J. Laurent (firm), National Gallery of Art Library, Department of Image Collections

Casiano Alguacil Blázquez (1832–1914, photographer), Inhabitants of Toledo (c. 1880s), in Spain: Toledo, Cordova, Granada, Seville, Valencia, Barcelona (1879/1894?), plate 25 from first of two albums of 189 albumen silver photographs, Madrid: J. Laurent (firm), National Gallery of Art Library, Department of Image Collections

Juan Laurent (1816–1886, photographer), Inhabitants of Quero, Toledo Province (1878), in Burgos, Madrid, Toledo, Escorial, Cordoba y Sevilla (1878/1890), plate 58 from album of 103 albumen silver photographs, Madrid: J. Laurent (firm), National Gallery of Art Library, Department of Image Collections

Etienne-Gabriel Bocourt (1821–after 1882, engraver), etching after John Singer Sargent’s El Jaleo, 1882, Paris: Salon of 1882, National Gallery of Art Library, Department of Image Collections 

Thomas E. Marr (1849-1910, photographer), John Singer Sargent’s “El Jaleo” (1882) in the Spanish Cloister, Fenway Court, c. 1922, gelatin silver DOP photograph from an album of 55 views of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Boston: Thomas E. Mott & Son (firm), National Gallery of Art Library, Department of Image Collections