VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS

China, Singapore, Japan, Capetown and Egypt, 1870s-80s

Album containing forty-seven albumen prints, including three two-part and one four-part panoramas, sizes approx. 5 1/8 x 4 in. to 8¾ x 11 1/8 in. or the reverse, four hand-tinted, one signed Miller and two with titles in the negatives, the majority mounted one-per-page, titled in ink on mounts, six with printed paper labels, inscribed on front blank with indistinct name HSS Lancaster - Yokohama, Japan, tissue guards, half morocco with later leather straps to spine, oblong 4to.

出版

Wamer, The Dragon Empress of China - Life and Times of Tz'u-hsi 1835-1908, p. 128 (illus.); Worswick, Photographs Imperial China 1850-1912, p. 61 (illus.)

拍品專文

Images include one hand-tinted two-part panorama of Hong Kong, 7½ x 19¼ in., one four-part panorama of Shanghai, 3 x 21 in.; an interesting study of a photographer's display of work including portraits and views with two cabinet portraits showing credit of [?Yee Chun], Hong Kong; an image of a mandarin court, two photographs of Chinese punishments, the Ming tombs, four portraits of Chinese women, Chinese actors and two two-part panoramas of Capetown.