Feb 14, 2017 - Sale 2436

Sale 2436 - Lot 21

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(JAPAN)
Elegant album with 48 hand-colored photographs of Yokohama, Tokyo, Nagasaki, Kyoto, and more.
With picturesque compositions, including street scenes, landscapes, parks, temples, a range of occupationals from carpenters to tea rooms, geishas, charming studies of children, and more. Hand-colored albumen prints, the images measuring approximately 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), and the reverse, mounted recto/verso, most with a caption in the negative. Oblong folio, red lacquer covers with gilt highlights and ivory inlay depicting birds in a landscape, light wear; contemporary leather backstrip; all edges gilt. 1880s