# 46134
SPITZ Charles Georges (1857-1894); YOUNG, James Lyle (1849-1929), collector (attributed)
[TAHITI] Study of Paea (breadfruit), 1882.
Albumen print, 140 x 100 mm, verso wet-stamped ‘G. Spitz, Papeete, Tahiti, Photographie Instantanée’, and with a fully contemporary caption in ink: ‘Paea / 1882’ and another in pencil ‘Bread fruit’; unmounted; a strong print with rich tonal range; two corners with crease and one with small amount of loss, otherwise good condition.
Provenance: Found loose at the rear of an album of photographs of Tahiti, the Marquesas and Cook Islands compiled in the 1880s by Papeete merchant and Pacific Islands trader James Lyle Young (1849-1929).