LEUNG TSE TOY, K. OGAWA, SEETON and others

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LEUNG TSE TOY, K. OGAWA, SEETON and others

Views and costume studies in China including the Sino-Japanese War, circa 1870s-90s

Album containing sixty-six albumen prints, two trimmed to oval, each approx. 7¾ x 6 in., mounted together, others approx. 7¼ x 9½ in. to 8 x 10½ in. or the reverse, one signed Seeton photo and titled in Chinese, three others titled in Chinese and two numbered in the negatives, mounted one-per-page, approx. forty-six titled in ink, five titled in pencil and four with printed paper labels on mounts, edges taped on all but two, black lacquer boards, oblong 4to. (disbound); with two albumen prints, 8 x 10½ in., mounted on card, loosely inserted.

Literature

The image of the execution scene appears in Worswick, Photographs Imperial China 1850-1912, p. 63 (illus.) where attributed to W. Saunders.

Exhibited

Several of the images in this album were exhibited in the National Gallery of Fine Arts, Beijing, China, Nov. 1984

Lot Essay

Views around Canton, Peking, Tientsin, several images relating to the Sino-Japanese war in 1894 including a group portrait of the POW's and soldiers, an interesting image of wounded soldiers being treated, view of Port Arthur showing a corpse lying on the rocks in the foreground, and the English Missionary Hospital, Tientsin. Other subjects include an equestrian portrait of the father of Emperor Tcheng; a portrait of Ulysses Grant and Viceroy Li Hung-Chang dated 1879; prisoners serving 'Kang' punishment, a view on the Pei-ho river; a Chinese execution in Tientsin, a balloon ascension; the Great Wall; a wedding procession; several portrait studies including a man receiving a pedicure; a portrait of a Chinese woman, two images of barbers at work and an intimate scene of a Chinese family at dinner outdoors.

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