A. FARSARI, KUSAKABE KIMBEI and others

Japanese landscapes and portrait studies, 1880s-90s

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A. FARSARI, KUSAKABE KIMBEI and others
Japanese landscapes and portrait studies, 1880s-90s
Album containing fifty hand-tinted albumen prints, each approx. 8 x 10 in. or the reverse, the majority titled and numbered in the negatives, occasional tissue guards (loose), a few with printed credit A. Farsari & Co...Yokohama, titled Japan in gilt on leather spine (part lacking, front and back cover loose), black lacquer boards, gilt onlay depicting Japanese fans on front cover and insects on back cover, g.e., oblong 4to.

出版

Worswick, Japan Photographs 1854-1905, p. 79 (illus.); Siegert et al., Felice Beato in Japan, p. 175 (illus.); Bennett, Early Japanese Images, pl. nos. 56, 58, 60 and 64 (each illus.)

拍品专文

Views include Fujiyama, garden scenes, a snowy street scene, temple studies, villages, and bridges; portraits of Japanese musicians, women in travelling chairs, eating, sleeping, a group portrait of men dressed in straw coats and hats titled 'Pilgrims to Fuji', wrestlers in an outdoor ring, a portrait of a 'betto', women carrying their children on their backs, buddhist priests and a portrait of a samurai. Some of these portraits are from negatives by Beato.