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THOMAS CHILD
Views around Peking, circa 1870s-80s
Seventeen albumen prints, each approx. 7¾ x 9 in., approx. nine signed, titled, dated and numbered in the negatives and one with ink credit stamp on recto, sixteen mounted on card including two mounted back-to-back, one titled and dated in pencil in a later hand and three with Child's printed series labels In and Around Peking on mounts, seven matted. (17)
Views around Peking, circa 1870s-80s
Seventeen albumen prints, each approx. 7¾ x 9 in., approx. nine signed, titled, dated and numbered in the negatives and one with ink credit stamp on recto, sixteen mounted on card including two mounted back-to-back, one titled and dated in pencil in a later hand and three with Child's printed series labels In and Around Peking on mounts, seven matted. (17)
Provenance
One of the images was originally in the library of Sir Robert Hart. See lot 26
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Exhibited
An image of one of the gateways to the Old Summer Palace was exhibited in the National Gallery of Fine Arts, Beijing, 1984.