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BURGUNDY - AMBROISE HEURLEY Album "La Vallée de la Cure" featuring views of Burgundy, photographs by Ambroise Heurley, and texts by Pierre-Andoche Febvre, 1877. Gien, source of the Cure River, plowing in the Morvan, Étang des Settons, Railly, Chastellux, Avallon, Cure, Saint-André, Bazoches, Domecy, Moulin-Gingon, Pierre-Perthuis, Vézelay, Gué-Pavé, Blannay, Voutenay, Arcy, Reigny, Vermenton, Accolay, Cravant. Photographs. Album containing 40 albumen prints with captions beneath the images. Included are 18th- and 19th-century documents about Febvre and two prints similar to the photographs in the album. Images: 8.6 x 15.2 cm to 16.8 x 22.8 cm; album: 27.7 x 38.7 cm In 1877, Andoche Febvre, a member of the Société d’Études d’Avallon, and photographer Ambroise Hurley produced a photo essay on the Cure River, from its source to its confluence with the Yonne. Some of these photographs stand out for their attention to scale, which adds aesthetic value to their work. Hurley thus includes elements that allow the viewer to grasp the relationships of size (a man on a cliff, a horse-drawn carriage at the bottom of a landscape, an umbrella planted in a clearing).