Lot Essay
Subjects include musicians, opium-smokers, basket-weavers, two prints from the same negative of Chinese men in traditional raincoats made of straw and Buddhist monks with ceremonial objects.
Details
W. SAUNDERS
Chinese portrait studies, 1870s-80s
Nine albumen prints, two hand-tinted, each approx. 8¼ x 10 in. or the reverse, one numbered in the negative, five mounted on paper, the remainder mounted on card including four back-to-back, two with printed paper series labels, matted. (9)
Chinese portrait studies, 1870s-80s
Nine albumen prints, two hand-tinted, each approx. 8¼ x 10 in. or the reverse, one numbered in the negative, five mounted on paper, the remainder mounted on card including four back-to-back, two with printed paper series labels, matted. (9)
Literature
The images of the musicians and the men in raincoats are both illustrated in Worswick, Photographs Imperial China 1850-1912, pp. 110 and 114 respectively; the images of a farmer being transported in a wheelbarrow and the Buddhist monks are illustrated in Carrington Goodrich, The Face of China as Seen by Photographers & Travelers 1860-1912, pp. 104 and 118 respectively.