£813
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art | 658
Auction: 5 November 2021 at 10:00 GMT
Comprising five oban yoko-e prints; all from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi), including the 13th station: Numazu; 14th station: Hara, Mount Fuji in the Morning; 30th station: Hamamatsu; 35th station: Yoshida; and 41st station: Narumi, all framed
Provenance: Private English collection, acquired by Henry Lardner Dennys (1852 -1926) thence by descent.
Henry Lardner Dennys arrived in Hong Kong in 1868 to serve his articles as a solicitor, and rose to become Crown Solicitor in 1896 and helped negotiate the Treaty for the New Territories for the colony of Hong Kong, and saved Dr Sun Yat Sen – the father of modern China - from capture at the hands of the Imperial police in 1895.