BARON VON STILLFRIED, KUSAKABE KIMBEI, SHIN-E-DO and others

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BARON VON STILLFRIED, KUSAKABE KIMBEI, SHIN-E-DO and others

Japanese costume studies and occupational portraits, 1870s-circa 1900

Twenty-one albumen prints and four platinum prints, 5½ x 3¾in. to 10 x 8in., all but two hand-tinted, seventeen numbered and or titled in the negatives, twenty-three mounted on card, ten mounted back-to-back, one with printed title label on mount, majority matted. (25)

Literature

The two images of vegetable-sellers are illustrated in Worswick, Japan Photographs 1854-1905, pp. 111 and 114

Lot Essay

Including portraits of a vegetable-seller, 'street Amazake-seller', flower seller and others by Kusakabe, an umbrella-maker, shoe-maker, farmers, rice cleaners and pounders; portraits of Japanese men and women; and a portrait of a Japanese man singing in top hat and tails by Stillfried.

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