PETER KLIER

'Rangoon', circa 1890s

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PETER KLIER
'Rangoon', circa 1890s
Album containing sixty albumen prints, 8½ x 10½ in. or the reverse, the majority titled, numbered and/or with photographer's credit P. Klier in the negatives, several with photographer's blindstamp P. Klier Rangoon on recto, occasional titles in ink on mounts, original binding (defective), large oblong 4to.

Provenance

By descent to the present owner. See also lots 96, 107, 108 and 115.

Literature

Singer, Burmah - A Photographic Journey 1855-1925, p. 86 (illus.)

Lot Essay

Views around Rangoon include New Government House, the Post Office, the New Public Offices; architectural details of the Shwe Dagone Pagoda, Shoay Dagone Pagoda, Mandalay Palace, Incomparable Pagoda in Mandalay, Koo Dom Dohr Pagoda, a view of the funeral pyre of a Burmese priest; five images of elephants at work moving timber (one illus.); street scenes; an image of a man in a Shan village; group portraits of Burmese buddhist priests, hill tribes, umbrella-makers, a fortune-teller with young boy, Burmese children in festival dress; and three costume studies.

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