VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS

'Shanghai', 1880s-90s

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS
'Shanghai', 1880s-90s
Album containing forty-four albumen prints, sizes approx. 8½ x 7½ in. to 10½ x 8 in., mounted on card, one with printed title label on mount, brown morocco, titled and ruled in gilt on front cover, folio; with manuscript list of titles loosely inserted.
Provenance
By descent to the present owner. See also lots 94, 96, 107, 108 and 119.
Literature
Worswick, Imperial China p. 61 (illus.)

Lot Essay

Including harbour views, street scenes, architectural studies of temples and pagodas; portraits of prisoners dragging a street roller (illus.), various images of chinese punishment, an outdoor portrait of a man having his hair cut, family portrait groups, portraits of musicians, a magician, women young and old in traditional dress, an image of a bound foot and a display of chinese porcelain.

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