VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including MILTON MILLER and EMIL RUSFELDT (The Hong Kong Photographic Rooms)

Architectural studies, harbour views and portraits, Canton and Hong Kong, 1870s

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including MILTON MILLER and EMIL RUSFELDT (The Hong Kong Photographic Rooms)
Architectural studies, harbour views and portraits, Canton and Hong Kong, 1870s
Thirty-five albumen prints including two two-part panoramas, 8 x 21½ in. and 8½ x 22 in., other sizes from 5¾ x 8 in. to 9 x 11 in., mounted back-to-back on card, one side within ruled ink borders, several titled in ink and sixteen titled and numbered on printed series labels on mounts, five matted. (35)
Literature
Worswick, Imperial China, pp. 57, 106, and 108 (each illus.)

Lot Essay

Including a panoramic view of Hong Kong race course and another of the harbour; a Chinese exhibition at the Recreation Ground West Point, Hong Kong; City Hall; a group portrait of westerners at a picnic; studies of pagodas including 'Pa-chao Pagoda'; Canton river views including an image of a 'Pleasure boat'; Sun-chew Temple; a view of the Bund at Shameen; a costume study of a mandarin and his wife in full court dress; female musicians (illus.), 'The Cangue', and an interior view of a Chinese drawing room.

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