Felice Beato, Baron von Stillfried, Stillfried & Andersen, Uchida Kyuichi and others

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Felice Beato, Baron von Stillfried, Stillfried & Andersen, Uchida Kyuichi and others
Japanese portrait studies, architecture and landscapes, 1870s-80s
Folio containing sixty-four albumen prints, thirty-four hand-tinted, the majority numbered and several titled in the negatives, mounted on card, pencil numbers on mounts, green cloth, ruled in gilt, folio. (64)

Literature

Siegert et. al., Felice Beato in Japan, pp. 98, 151, 171, 175, 191; Cortazzi and Bennett, Japan, p. 78; and Worswick, Japan, pp. 40 and 46.

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Lot Essay

Approx. half the photographs are portrait studies including portraits of Japanese wrestlers, geisha, two images of a Japanese man wearing western clothes, tradespeople, musicians, portraits of the Emperor and Empress, samurai and an image of tattoed men. Several of the images are from negatives by Beato.

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