BEATO FELICE Album entitled Photographic Views Costumes of

Sale 1925 - Lot 22A

Price Realized: $ 16,100

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 18,000 - $ 22,000

BEATO, FELICE<>
Album entitled "Photographic Views & Costumes of Japan" with 100 photographs including 2 panoramas and 20 hand-colored images, depicting pre-industrial, feudal Japan, comprising views of rivers, country roads, mountainous landscapes, towns and villages, temples and palaces, including the Palace Arima Sama-- Yedo (Tokyo), in and around Hakoni, Kamakura, and Yedo and staged portraits, including Beato's colorist, fishmongers, street actors, rice shop, and priests. Albumen prints, 9x11½ inches and the reverse, mounted one-per-page, many accompanied by printed descriptive text on facing page, and most titled, on mount recto, in an unidentified penciled hand. Oblong folio, gilt-stamped cloth (lacks rear cover) with the photographer's label "F. Beato and Co., Yokohama," on the front pastedown. 1863-1869

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The Italian photographer Felice Beato traveled to Japan in 1863, where he established one of the first photo-studios in Yokahama, with Charles Wirgman, a sketch-artist and fellow journalist. The main aim of their business was the "commercialization in the West of that great novelty, "Japonisme," the craze for all things Japanese," as noted in Margarita Winkel's <