May 15, 2003 - Sale 1971

Sale 1971 - Lot 233

Price Realized: $ 1,725
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(JAPAN)
Album containing 58 hand-colored photographs of Japan and its people, comprising portraits, women cooking, eating, playing games, two women weaving at a loom, a young girl with a sleeping baby on her back, landscapes, architecture and more. Albumen prints, 81/4x101/4 inches (21x26 cm.) and slightly smaller, 11 are mounted and not attached, 47 are cornered into the album recto and verso, many with text captions in the negative. Oblong folio, decorative cloth, ties, front cover detached, soiled and worn. 1880s