FELICE BEATO

Views of Japan and Korea, 1860s-circa 1871

細節

FELICE BEATO
Views of Japan and Korea, 1860s-circa 1871
Album containing twenty-five albumen prints, sizes approx. 6.3/8 x 8.5/8 in. to 9½ x 11¾ in., mounted one-per-page, many accompanied by printed series labels with descriptive text on facing pages, the remainder titled in pencil in a later hand on facing page, cloth boards heavily decorated with bronze paint and onlay depicting birds, fruit trees and mountains (spine missing), brass mounts with scalloped edges to two corners, 14 x 19¼ in.; with one loose albumen print by Stillfried & Co., titled His Imperial Majesty the Tenno of Japan and Suite on mount

出版

Bennett, Korea caught in Time, pl. 19-21

拍品專文

Views of Japanese rivers, country roads, streets in towns and villages, temples, a moat and palace, including the Valley of Mayonashi, the Tokaido road leading to Osaka, the town of Atsunghi, Ushidu, Edo, Odawara, Kamakura and Hakoni. Six Korean subjects including battle scenes 1871 showing the Korean dead, as well as a portrait of officers and soldiers and another of prisoners on board an American ship taken in June 1871

Felice Beato was the official photographer to the US 1871 expedition to Korea under Admiral Rodgers.