STILLFRIED AND ANDERSON

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STILLFRIED AND ANDERSON

'Views and Costumes of Japan', circa 1870s-mid 1880s

Album containing sixty-three albumen prints including one with photographic title and photographer's credits, the rest hand-tinted, each approx. 7¾ x 9½ in., all but four numbered in the negatives, mounted on card, half morocco, titled Japan and ruled in gilt on front cover, oblong 4to.

Literature

Worswick, Japan Photographs, pp. 40-41 and 77 (illus.); Siegert et al., Felice Beato in Japan, pp. 146, 150, 158, and 160 (illus.)

Lot Essay

Including portraits of the Emperor and Empress of Japan originally taken by Uchida Kuichi, tradespeople and Geisha, women at their toilet, a Japanese postman, wrestlers, musicians, and several river scenes.

Several of the images are from negatives by Beato. The firm Stillfried & Anderson bought Beato's stock in 1877 and moved into his studio at this time.

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