SUTTON, MILLER, ALOPHE, NADAR, SILVY, PETIT, RICHEBOURG, MAYER & PIERSON, DISDERI and others

French, Chinese and Japanese portraits, dogs and a cat, 1860s

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SUTTON, MILLER, ALOPHE, NADAR, SILVY, PETIT, RICHEBOURG, MAYER & PIERSON, DISDERI and others
French, Chinese and Japanese portraits, dogs and a cat, 1860s
A small carte-de-visite album containing forty-one cards, twenty-five hand-tinted, the majority of these with printed paper title labels on verso, two titled and with credits in ink on verso Stots Bashi. Tycoon of Japan in Usual Costume. Photod. by T W Sutton C E R W At Osaka 1867 and Stots Bashi: Tycoon of Japan in full Court Costume.....Osaka 1867, one signed Miller in the negative, four with Nadar's red ink stamp on verso, one of these inscribed in pencil Japonais ambassadeur, brown morocco, gilt clasps (broken), g.e., 8vo.; with thirty-five carte-de-visite photographs, each hand-tinted, with printed paper title labels on verso. (a lot)

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A good collection of sixty Japanese subjects including portraits of the Japanese ambassador, Matsudaira and the last Tokugawa Shogun, Yoshinobu, known as Stots-Bashi. Other Japanese cards show costumes, trades and 'types' including several large family and other groups. The album also contains one carte by Miller of the Governor General of Canton; a study of Garibaldi's boot and a portrait of Alexandre Dumas by Nadar, two dogs and a cat by Richebourg, society portraits by Disdri, Petit, Mayer & Pierson and Silvy, the latter including an excellent study of Princess Blanche of Orleans with her doll.

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