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An unusual album with thirteen large views and one exceptional portrait (illus.) by Ueno Hikoma, the first Japanese photographer to establish a studio in Nagasaki in 1862 and one of the first professional Japanese photographers. Also including a page with six carte-de-visite-size Chinese portraits and another (trimmed), titled in ink [?Yu]yeno, Hikoma, a Japanese Photographer. He took the views of Nagasaki that appear in this Book. Other subjects comprise eight views in Yokohama, Kobe, Ionsima and Katasie; a portrait titled Malay Rayjah - a petty native Prince, Penang, Farther India; a large waterfall study (two prints joined) by Feilberg and three views of Penang possibly all by Feilberg; five views of Hong Kong including two of the Happy Valley Cemetery; and seven smaller studies in and around St. Helena, Cape of Good Hope.
A print of the waterfall view by Feilberg is in the British Library Oriental and India Office Collections. The photograph was exhibited in Paris in 1867 and a woodcut was published in the Illustrated London News in February 1870.
A print of the waterfall view by Feilberg is in the British Library Oriental and India Office Collections. The photograph was exhibited in Paris in 1867 and a woodcut was published in the Illustrated London News in February 1870.