FELICE BEATO, BARON von STILLFRIED and KUSAKABE KIMBEI

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FELICE BEATO, BARON von STILLFRIED and KUSAKABE KIMBEI

Japanese landscapes, portraits and costume studies, 1870s-90s

Seventy-four albumen prints, sixty-seven hand-tinted, thirty-eight approx. 8 x 11 in. or the reverse, the remainder approx. 5¼ x 3¾ in. or the reverse, approx. half titled and the majority numbered in the negatives, thirty-two variously mounted on card, occasional titles in pencil on mounts. (74)
Literature
An image of a geisha balancing on her shoulders with her legs in the air is illustrated in Loti, Once upon a time, p. 71

Lot Essay

Including views around Nagasaki, Kyoto, Tokyo, Osaka and Yokohoma, several images of tradespeople, street acrobats, a postman, women at their toilet and half-draped women at the bath, Buddhist priests, Japanese wrestlers, a funeral procession, workers weighing tea leaves and women picking shells at Negishi beach.

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