Lot Essay
Portraits include a young woman in snow costume, a Samurai in armour, a General, a young woman in travelling chair, and a Japanese boy wearing a tuxedo titled New Years Day.
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Japanese views and portraits
Details
KUSAKABE KIMBEI (1841-1934)
Japanese views and portraits
Album of 56 prints, all but one hand-coloured. 1880s-90s. Each approx. 8 x 10½in. (20 x 26.5cm.) or reverse. Majority titled and numbered in negatives; 2 with printed titles on labels on mounts. K. Kimbei, Honcho-dori, Yokohama credit stamp on front pastedown. Each mounted back-to-back, tissue guards. Pictorial black lacquer, g.e. In printed cloth case.
Album size: 12¾ x 15¾in. (32 x 40.2cm.)
Japanese views and portraits
Album of 56 prints, all but one hand-coloured. 1880s-90s. Each approx. 8 x 10½in. (20 x 26.5cm.) or reverse. Majority titled and numbered in negatives; 2 with printed titles on labels on mounts. K. Kimbei, Honcho-dori, Yokohama credit stamp on front pastedown. Each mounted back-to-back, tissue guards. Pictorial black lacquer, g.e. In printed cloth case.
Album size: 12¾ x 15¾in. (32 x 40.2cm.)
Literature
See: Worswick, Japan Photographs 1854-1905, pp. 59, 79.
Special notice
VAT rate of 17.5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer’s premium