MARGARET HAY ROBERTSON

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MARGARET HAY ROBERTSON

'China and Japan, 1901 and 1902'

Album containing 204 photographs including 183 cyanotypes, twelve albumen prints and nine gelatin silver prints, sizes approx. 1½ x 3¾ in. to 3½ x 5½in., two titled in the negatives, three postcards, variously mounted on Chinese rice-paper pages, the majority with ink inscriptions on mounts, a few with titles in pencil, three red paper labels with Chinese inscriptions, including one inscribed as a Christmas card and signed Chiang Kwei T'i, General of Shantung New Army Peking in ink, another on front cover signed Robertson in Chinese, inside front cover signed and dated in ink, paper covers, hand-bound with string, oblong 8vo.

拍品專文

A personal document of various views and people around Peking during the Boxer Rebellion in the first years of this century. Margaret Hay Robertson was the daughter of the American Captain of the Allied Forces during the Boxer Rebellion and an amateur photographer. Including portraits of His Excellency Hu Chu-Fien, Civil and Military Governor of Peking, General Chiang, images of funeral processions, several family portraits, views around Tientsin, Nagasaki, Kyoto, Nikko, Tokyo, Yokohama, the Inland Sea and Hong Kong.