THOMAS CHILD, MILTON MILLER, W. SAUNDERS, JOHN THOMSON and others

Mixed Chinese Subjects

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THOMAS CHILD, MILTON MILLER, W. SAUNDERS, JOHN THOMSON and others

Chinese landscapes and portrait studies, circa 1870s-80s

Forty-nine albumen prints, sizes approx. 6½ x 9½ in. to 8¼ x 11½ in. or the reverse, ten signed T. Child in the negatives with titles, dates and numbers and two signed M. Miller in the negatives, several numbered in ink on recto, mounted on album pages, the majority titled in ink on mounts.. (49)

Literature

One of the portratis of Viceroy Li Hung-Chang appears in John Thomson's China and its People. See unabridged reprint published by Dover Publications, New York, vol IV, pl. II. An interesting image of a farmer being transported to market in a wheelbarrow is illustrated in Carrington Goodrich, The Face of China as Seen by Photographers and Travelers 1860-1912, p. 104 where attributed to John Thomson. More recent scholarship suggests that this is in fact by W. Saunders. The portrait of the Buddhist priests is illustrated in the same book, p. 118.

Lot Essay

Including portraits of Mandarin officials, beggars, merchants, buddhist priests, bankers and accountants, and men smoking opium; several views around Peking near the Summer Palace, the Bund Shanghai and Canton.

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