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The Empress Dowager Tz'u Hsi; Chinese views and portrait studies, circa 1903

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The Empress Dowager Tz'u Hsi; Chinese views and portrait studies, circa 1903
Eight gelatin silver prints, one hand-tinted, one 4 x 5 in., the remainder approx. 8½ x 6½ in. or the reverse, annotated in pencil on verso; a quantity of gelatin silver print views and portraits, 3/¼ x 5½ in. and 5 x 7 in. or the reverse; a few miscellaneous photographs including one albumen print view, 8 x 10½ in.; with printed ephemera relating to the Empress Dowager Tz'u Hsi and magazine clippings where these images of variants have been reproduced.
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The photographs were taken by a Manchu official, said to be the brother of Princess Der Ling. They are part of a set of thirty-eight images of the Empress Dowager Tz'u Hsi of China, taken in 1903 at her summer palace near Peking which were exhibited in the Hallmark show in October 1972. The images offered here include two portraits of the Empress on her throne, the Empress and her attendants standing in the snow, the Empress being carried through her summer palace by royal eunuchs, and an image of a royal pageant.