Lot 273
JAPAN - KUSAKABE, KIMBEI, AND OTHERS
A COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS, MAINLY ALBUMEN PRINTS, LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 2 October 2018 at 12:00 BST
Description
11 photographs, each 20.5 x 26.5cm, hand-coloured and mounted, captioned to reverse: "Kyomidzu, Temple, at Kioto", "Chionin Temple, at Kioto", "Iyeasu temple, Yomei Mon, (Great gate) at Nikko", "View of Kobe", "The Mitsui Bank building...", "The Bronze Image Shinkozi, at Hiogo", "Mikado's Garden, at Kioto", "Gogio Bridge, at Kioto", "Reflected Scenery of Fujiyama", "Prince Hotta's Gardens"& "Metaki Waterfall, at Kobe"; another collection of 17 albumen prints, mostly hand-coloured, showing Japanese scenery and architecture, each c. 21 x 26cm each; a hand-coloured albumen print showing two sleeping girls in traditional dress; a hand-coloured photograph of the Hase-dera, Kamakura; 6 other albumen prints laid onto both sides of three card leaves, three mounted postcards and 5 small silver gelatin prints of Kyoto