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The majority landscape or architectural subjects around Nikko and Tokio with a group portrait titled 'The Mikoshi', portraits of wheat strikers, lantern-makers, shop-keepers, pilgrims and singers.
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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS
Japanese landscapes and portrait studies, 1880s-1890s
Album containing fifty hand-tinted albumen prints, approx. 8 x 10 3/8 in., the majority numbered and titled in the negatives, mounted one-per-page with watercolour sketches on mounts, tissue guards, red lacquer boards, inset panel on front cover in black with pictorial design of birds on a branch, gilt onlay, g.e. (spine worn), oblong 4to., in cloth box (broken).
Japanese landscapes and portrait studies, 1880s-1890s
Album containing fifty hand-tinted albumen prints, approx. 8 x 10 3/8 in., the majority numbered and titled in the negatives, mounted one-per-page with watercolour sketches on mounts, tissue guards, red lacquer boards, inset panel on front cover in black with pictorial design of birds on a branch, gilt onlay, g.e. (spine worn), oblong 4to., in cloth box (broken).