Felice Beato, Baron von Stillfried and others

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Felice Beato, Baron von Stillfried and others

Japanese landscape and costume studies, circa 1880s

Album of fifty-one hand-tinted albumen prints, approx. 7½ x 9½ in. or the reverse, the majority numbered and/or titled in the negatives, black lacquer boards depicting a cherry blossom tree with birds, gilt onlay, oblong 4to.

Literature

Cortazzi and Bennett, Japan, pl. nos. 10, 16, 25, and 96; Siegert et. al., Felice Beato in Japan, p. 180 (illus.)

Further details

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Lot Essay

Views of Nikko, Fugiage, Papenberg, Kinkakuji, Tonasawa, Riudzi-ga-taki, Hakone, Mishima, Ishiyama, Chiuzenji, 'Owarit-garden', Uyeno, Asakusa, Sigi-yama; portraits of Japanese ladies, tradespeople including barbers, woodcutters and weavers; a pottery and an antique shop.

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