Lot Essay
Including views around Peking, Shanghai, Tientsin, and a group portrait of Western men in uniform being served by Chinese women.
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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including THOMAS CHILD (1870-1889)
China, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore, 1870s-90s
Fifty-five albumen prints including three hand-tinted and three gelatin silver prints, sizes approx. 3½ x 3½ in. to 9 x 11 in., two signed T. Child and dated with occasional numbers and/or titles in the negatives, all but one mounted on card, several with printed paper series labels with descriptive text and a few titled and/or dated in ink on mounts; with an album containing twenty-six hand-tinted albumen print Japanese portraits and landscapes, 3½ x 5¼ in., approx. half titled and numbered in the negatives, Japanese cloth, oblong 8vo., in blue cloth folio. (a lot)
China, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore, 1870s-90s
Fifty-five albumen prints including three hand-tinted and three gelatin silver prints, sizes approx. 3½ x 3½ in. to 9 x 11 in., two signed T. Child and dated with occasional numbers and/or titles in the negatives, all but one mounted on card, several with printed paper series labels with descriptive text and a few titled and/or dated in ink on mounts; with an album containing twenty-six hand-tinted albumen print Japanese portraits and landscapes, 3½ x 5¼ in., approx. half titled and numbered in the negatives, Japanese cloth, oblong 8vo., in blue cloth folio. (a lot)