Lot Essay
One album contains several views around 'Chefoo', China including two panoramas, a view of 'Palamipur', India, the Suez Canal and views in Italy and France. Also included is a group portrait of Japanese women at a dinner party, a Japanese man eating, a Japanese man in western dress dining western-style and two group portraits of the officers and lieutenents of H.M.S. Bellesophou dated 1876. The other album relates to Japan and contains several portrait studies and landscapes. Views around Nagasaki including two two-part panoramas mounted on two pages, each approx. 6¼ x 16 in., several views around Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto, Fujiyama, Yokohama, the waterfalls at Nikko and Tokyo. Several interesting portrait studies of labourers, a blind man, women in the kango, a group portrait of 'Daimis and his wives', men in a ferry along the Tokaido and a group portrait of women at their toilet.