Japanese views and portraits

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KOICHI UCHIDA AND SHUSABURO USUI; AND VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS
Japanese views and portraits
Album of 101 hand-coloured albumen prints (one tipped to rear free endpaper). Circa 1885. Each approx. 8 3/8 x 10 1/8in. (21.3 x 25.5cm.) or reverse. Majority titled and/or numbered in negatives (many also numbered in Japanese, scratched out in negatives); many titled and a few numbered in pencil on mounts. Pictorial black lacquer, g.e. With a concertina album of 50 hand-coloured albumen prints. 1890s. Each approx. 3 5/8 x 5 3/8in. (9.2 x 13.6cm.) or reverse. Many titled in negatives. Pictorial black lacquer.
Album sizes: 12 x 16in. (32 x 40.6cm.); 4 5/8 x 7in. (11.7 x 17.9cm.) (2)

Literature

See: Bennett, Early Japanese Images, p. 107, pl. 86-87; p. 110, pl. 92; p. 113, pl. 95.

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Descriptif du lot

Varied occupational studies, including newspaper and basket-sellers, carpenters, a water-carrier and a fishmonger. Also includes costume studies and group portraits of Ainu men and women by Uchida, children and priests.

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