CHARLES T. SCOWEN, UCHIDA and others

Ceylon and Japan, circa 1870s-80s

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CHARLES T. SCOWEN, UCHIDA and others
Ceylon and Japan, circa 1870s-80s
Album containing eighty-one albumen prints, eight hand-tinted, twelve 3¾ x 4¼ in. or the reverse, the remainder approx. 8½ x 11 in. or the reverse, seventeen signed Scowen and with occasional numbers in the negatives, numbered in pencil on mounts, half maroon morocco, titled Photographs and ruled in gilt on front cover, g.e., oblong 4to.; with a manuscript list of titles and a few miscellaneous photographs loosely inserted. (a lot)
Provenance
Samuel Hamilton Cartwright; thence by descent. Samual Cartwright was the dentist to Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. He aquired this album in 1888 when he visited his sister-in-law in Ceylon where she lived with her husband who worked as the Director of Education. See also lot 101.
Literature
Bennett, Early Japanese Images, pl. no. 87 where attributed to Uchida.

Lot Essay

Street scenes, river views, architectural details and portrait studies including several views of the ruins at Mihintale, buddhist temples, portraits of a Kandyan chief, a Tamil girl, devil dancers, a Tamil family, Veddahs the hill people of Ceylon, buddhist priests, snake charmers, a Hindu priest, and views of the elephant Kraal including a view of four elephants standing around a dead elephant; eleven Japanese portrait studies including dancing girls, a basket-maker, a shampooer, Japanese men in traditional straw raincoats, a group portrait of Ainos, a tattoed man and a view of Japanese wrestlers in the ring surrounded by a crowd.

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