Lot 305
Glass Plate Negatives of Asia, c. 1885 by William Brown Dunlop (1861-1946)
CIRCA 1870/1880
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2018 at 12:00 BST
Description
Circa 100 plate glass negatives, labelled on 2 boxes "Negatives taken in the East (China, Japan etc.) 1885, W[illiam] B[rown] D[unlop]", 12 x 16.5cm., in 2 wooden boxes, depicting Chinese and European buildings, landscape, shipping &c. and c. 110 plate glass negatives, Scotland and Asia, wrapped in paper or in cardboard boxes
Footnote
Note: The photographer was William Brown Dunlop (1861-1946) who made a commercial trip to China in 1883/4. He was a Chartered Accountant and Collector residing at Seton Palace, East Lothian. There are prints of all the negatives with titles held at West Register House under the name of W B Dunlop donated by the vendor's mother Mrs Aline Betty Dunlop, probably in the 1980s. An incomplete small notebook lists photographs taken at Singapore , Batavia, Buitenzorg (Java), & Sindanglaya (Java).