Lot 153
* Japan. - Album containing 50 mounted photographs. No place or year (circa 1880).
Estimate
€ 1.500
Starting Price
€ 1.000
Lot:
153
Category:
Geography and work of views
Japan. - Album containing 50 mounted photos (presumably partially colored albumen prints). 26 x 34,5 cm. Photos measuring approximately 20 × 26 cm. Half-leather. With a decorative border on the front cover featuring an inlaid landscape scene depicting a Japanese house, rendered in lacquer painting with a relief texture (18 x 25.5 cm).
(Minor signs of age on the inside; 1 paper defect on the right margin; some photos have faded.)
Most likely almost exclusively photos purchased. Featuring locations and scenes from Kyoto, Nikko, Tokyo, and elsewhere, including scenes of daily life such as family scenes, a fruit market, buildings, monuments, the cherry blossom festival, dancers, wrestlers, fencers, clam diggers, and much more.
(Minor signs of age on the inside; 1 paper defect on the right margin; some photos have faded.)
Most likely almost exclusively photos purchased. Featuring locations and scenes from Kyoto, Nikko, Tokyo, and elsewhere, including scenes of daily life such as family scenes, a fruit market, buildings, monuments, the cherry blossom festival, dancers, wrestlers, fencers, clam diggers, and much more.