Oct 19, 2017 - Sale 2458

Sale 2458 - Lot 34

Price Realized: $ 5,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,400 - $ 1,800
(JAPAN)
An album with 60 pastoral Japanese scenes. Including samurai in their armor, monks worshipping Buddhist demigod idols, beautiful geishas, lush mountain landscapes, and more. Hand-colored albumen prints, the images measuring 8 1/8x10 1/4 inches (20.7x26 cm.), and the reverse, mounted recto/verso, most with a caption in the negative, and some with a handwritten caption on the mount. Oblong 4to, green silk with embroidered details, lightly worn; accordion-fold binding, most loose. Circa 1870-80

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