Dec 13, 2007 - Sale 2132

Sale 2132 - Lot 315

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(JAPAN)
Colorful album entitled "Views and Costumes of Japan by Tamamura," with 50 photographs of girlish geishas, busy tradesmen's open-air shops, occupational studies, beautiful landscapes in Kioto, distant views of Mt. Fuji, temple architecture in Nikko, and more. Hand-colored albumen prints, approximately 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.) and the reverse, with a handwritten calligraphic or label caption on mount recto. Oblong folio, black silk over boards with multi-colored embroidered figures on front cover; with Tamamura's labels on the front and rear pastedowns. Circa 1890