(FIJI EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS) [Views taken in Fiji 1887 88 CBHM

Sale 2384 - Lot 336

Price Realized: $ 3,500

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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

(FIJI--EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS.) [Views taken in Fiji 1887-88 / C.B.H.M being Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner of Western Pacific.] An impressive album containing 40 mounted albumens and 4 watercolor portraits of islanders (signed "Percy Spence"), composed, presumably, by E.C. Mitchell, a relation of then-Governor Sir Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell; some albumens bearing the blindstamp of Duffy Bros., Levuka, Fiji. Albumens mounted on recto-only, with contemporary ink manuscript titles. Oblong 4to, 240x300 mm, contemporary 1/2 black morocco, worn, front cover, flyleaf, and first leaf detached; photos toned, mounts foxed. Fiji, late 1880s

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Subject matter includes: landscapes; native Fijians in traditional garb; colonials; the governor posing with Fijians and whites; ceremonies; etc.

Spence (1868-1933) was an Australian artist who spent his youth in Fiji, where his father was a colonial official.