Lot Essay
Portraits of geisha, actors, a carpenter, women cleaning, at their toilet, preparing food, drinking tea, and arranging flowers; river views and temples.
Details
Various photographers
Japanese landscape and portrait studies, 1880s
Concertina album containing fifty hand-tinted albumen prints, each approx. 3½ x 5¼ in. or the reverse, several titled and numbered in the negatives, occasional tissue guards, red lacquer boards (front cover detached and part disbound), ivory and gilt onlay depicting two women in a Japanese landscape, 6 x 7¾ in.
Japanese landscape and portrait studies, 1880s
Concertina album containing fifty hand-tinted albumen prints, each approx. 3½ x 5¼ in. or the reverse, several titled and numbered in the negatives, occasional tissue guards, red lacquer boards (front cover detached and part disbound), ivory and gilt onlay depicting two women in a Japanese landscape, 6 x 7¾ in.