VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including KUSAKABE KIMBEI

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including KUSAKABE KIMBEI

Japanese landscapes, interiors and portrait studies, 1870s-90s

Seventeen hand-tinted albumen prints, sizes approx. 7½ x 8 in. to 8¼ x 10 in. or the reverse, each backed with card and mounted on card trimmed to image and held by corners on modern mounts, six with printed series labels, the remainder with modern printed paper labels on reverse. (17)

Literature

Bethel, D., Image, Vol. 34, nos. 1 and 2, Rochester: George Eastman House.

Lot Essay

Including images of geisha girls, buddhist priests, a brush salesman, a funeral procession and views around Nagasaki, Yokohoma and Nikko.

These photographs are from Japan: Described and Illustrated by the Japanese, edited by F. Brinkley, Boston: 1897-98.

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