VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including MILTON MILLER and FELICE BEATO

Portraits, architectural studies and views, China, Japan and Siam, 1860s-70s

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including MILTON MILLER and FELICE BEATO
Portraits, architectural studies and views, China, Japan and Siam, 1860s-70s
Thirty-one albumen prints including one two-part and one three-part panorama, 11½ x 19 in. and 7½ x 26 in., other sizes from 4 x 5½ in. to 10 x 12½ in. or the reverse, one 15½ x 20 in., one trimmed to oval, variously mounted back-to-back on album leaves, each titled and a few dated in ink on mounts. (31)

出版

Siegert et al., Felice Beato in Japan, p. 110 (illus.); Worswick, Imperial China, p. 70 (illus.); Worswick, Japan Photographs 1854-1905, pp. 38-39 (illus.)

拍品专文

Three large-format group portraits taken on the steps of Bower Hanbury House in Shanghai in April 1866 "by a Chinese photographer" comprising a group of Chinese merchants, Chinese ladies with their children in traditional dress, and a group of Westerners and Chinese men, all individually identified on mounts; a studio portrait by Miller of a Cantonese mother and daughter; group portraits of the Shanghai Municipal Council, 'Chun Chupping and family', and a group of thirty Chinese students who were sent to America to be educated; a three-part panorama of the British Consulate and Bund in Shanghai, seen from the water; an image of a boat coming back after a hunting expedition with a wild boar, birds and other larger animals hanging out to dry; a large-format view of the cemetery at Nagasaki; a two-plate image of the Temple of Haschiman Sama near Yokohama; and a portrait identified as Prince Momorachidy of Bangkok and three Siamese girls described as bodyguards to the King.