Lot Essay
Good landscapes including river and lake scenery, ornamental gardens, street scenes, historical sites; and eleven portrait, genre and occupational subjects.
Japanese landscape, gardens and portraits, 1880s-90s
Details
KUSAKABE KIMBEI (1841-1934) and possibly another
Japanese landscape, gardens and portraits, 1880s-90s
Album of fifty hand-tinted albumen prints, each approx. 8 x 10 in., the majority numbered and titled in the negatives from the series by Kusakabe, tissue guards, black lacquer boards (lacking front cover and back cover damaged), g.e., oblong 4to.
Japanese landscape, gardens and portraits, 1880s-90s
Album of fifty hand-tinted albumen prints, each approx. 8 x 10 in., the majority numbered and titled in the negatives from the series by Kusakabe, tissue guards, black lacquer boards (lacking front cover and back cover damaged), g.e., oblong 4to.
Literature
Worswick, Japan Photographs 1854-1905, pp. 60, 100 and 113 (illus.)