|
|
Stock Features
Early Japanese Photographs
 |
BEATO, Felice/Felix., Kendo, circa 1867-68.
Hand-tinted albumen print, 10 x 8⅜inches (25.5 x 21 cm.), mounted.
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS ITEM
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
Hand-tinted albumen print, 6 x 8⅛ inches (15 x 20.6 cm.), mount trimmed to image and on another mount, titled in ink on the second mount. Photographs by the artist Wilhelm Burger are extremely rare, particularly views or figure studies. This is a fine example. |
|
 |
KUSAKABE KIMBEI STUDIO., Samurai. circa 1870s.
Hand-tinted albumen print, 10⅜ x 8⅛ inches (26.3 x 20.6 cm.), with paper title label on the mount.
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS ITEM
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
Album of fifty hand-tinted albumen prints, each around 8⅛ x 10⅜ inches (20.5 x 26.5 cm.) or the reverse, printed title labels on mounts, tissue guards, all edges gilt, brown morocco-backed black lacquer boards, decorated with quail, flowers and a tree, titled JAPAN in gilt on spine, with contemporary silk-lined and decorated Japanese card box, oblong album, 12⅜ x 16⅛ inches (31.5 x 41 cm.). A fine album, probably compiled in the 1880s but including prints from some negatives made earlier. A varied range of subjects including wrestlers (Bennett, Photography in Japan 1853-1912, front cover illustration); two Aino portrait groups by Uchida (Bennett, Early Japanese Images, p. 107); ‘Coolie Winter Dress’ and others by Stillfried (Worswick, Japan Photographs 1854-1905, p. 99); with costume portraits by Kusakabe. |
|
|
|
| |
Concertina-style album of forty-nine hand-tinted albumen prints, forty-one large prints approx. 7⅞ x 10¼ inches (20.3 x 28 cm.), and 8 smaller prints; most titled and with Western and Japanese numbers in the negatives, silk on cloth with (later?) decorative metal guards at corners; album 10⅝ x 13¾ inches (27.5 x 35 cm.). A fine example from a rare and important studio. Suzuki Shinichi II studied in San Francisco at the studio of Isaiah Tabor. Contains two images from the ‘shajo’ series. Provenance: Sir Thomas George Fermor-Hesketh, 7th Bt., who acquired these photographs in Yokohama during a visit to Japan on a cruise in 1880. |
|
|
|
Full description is available here 
