Oct 15, 2007 - Sale 2124

Sale 2124 - Lot 50

Price Realized: $ 2,880
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
(JAPAN)
Album entitled "Northern Japan" containing 47 beautifully-rendered photographic images depicting Japanese landscapes, street scenes, and temple architecture in fusiyama, tokyo, yokohama, asaki, ueno, ikigami, shiba, and nikko. Albumen prints, 8 3/4x11 inches (22.2x27.9 cm.), with the name of the city and an inventory number in the negative. Oblong folio, 3/4 gilt-lettered morocco; all edges gilt. 1880s

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A unique compilation of accomplished studies in which the overall focus is the landscape rather than the geisha. Candid images show indigenous people in their everyday lives while others chronicle the elegant details of temple architecture.