VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS
VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS

Japanese views and occupational portraits, circa 1880s-90s

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS
Japanese views and occupational portraits, circa 1880s-90s
Album of twenty-two hand-coloured albumen prints, each approx. 8¼ x 10¾ in., twenty-one numbered and titled in the negatives, loosely inserted in pre-cut corners, Japanese cloth boards with hand-coloured scenes to front and back covers, 10¾ x 14½ in.

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A good selection of finely coloured prints, images include several river views, gardens, a fruit stall, a man with his pack horse, a group of labourers gathering tea leaves, a bamboo grove, walkways with cherry blossom, rick-shaw bearers, a woman being carried in a sedan chair and landscapes. Titles detail locations such as Hakone, Tokyo, Yokohama and Kioto.

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