YUEN MING & CO.

Chinese landscapes, architectural studies and portrait studies, 1890s

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YUEN MING & CO.
Chinese landscapes, architectural studies and portrait studies, 1890s
Concertina album containing fifty-six albumen prints, eight approx. 6 x 7¾ in. or the reverse, others approx. 8 x 10½ in. or the reverse, three signed Yuen Ming & Co., 42 Nanking Road, several numbered and three titled in the negatives, titled in ink on mounts, black lacquer boards (worn and chipped), ivory and gilt onlay depiciting a mother and child in a landscape, oblong large 4to.

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Views around Shanghai including harbour views, Hong Kong and Shanghai bank, Shanghai cathedral, Chinese chain pumps, views around Amoy, the Hong Kong race course; Temple of the White Stork, Wu Chang; architectural studies of pagodas at Soochow; garden views and studies of pagodas and temples at Hangchow; several views around Ichang, views along the Yang-tze river, rice fields inland from Hankow; portraits of opium-smokers, proceedings inside a Chinese court house, 'coolies in grass raincoats', and an image of a Chinese family praying, titled 'Ancestral worship'.