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SAUNDERS, WILLIAM (1832-1892) Group of 15 rare photographs of Chinese men, women, and families, including prints depicting different modes of transportation and styles of criminal punishment, street scenes in Shanghai, and occupational studies. Albumen prints (13 delicately hand-tinted), 8 1/4x11 1/4 inches (21x28.6 cm.), and the reverse, the original mounts measuring 19 1/2x14 inches (49.5x35.6 cm.), 7 with period captions, in pencil, and 5 with letterpress captions affixed to mounts recto. Circa 1870
Saunders was a British engineer who traveled extensively in Asia and photographed primarily in China. He opened a Shanghai studio in 1862 and retired in 1888. Five of the prints are offered with Saunders' original descriptive letterpress captions.
Most of the photographs are reproduced in Terry Bennett's publication, History of Photography in China, Western Photographers 1861-1879 (London: Quaritch, 2010). Page numbers (#) are noted in parenthesis below. "Cab stand, Shanghai" (#103 ) "Chinese lady" (#93) "A Civil Merchant" (#338) "[Prisoners in] Stocks" (#100) "Chinese Ladies" (#93) "Mandarin" (#338) Porters carrying two figures being in moving chairs (#102) Two men with hog tied to cart (#101) "Street in Shanghai" (not tinted) "Shanghai, China" (not tinted) "No. 18--Shanghai Winter Dress" (wrong caption) "Execution" (beheading) (#336) "No. 6--Weaving" (#330) "No. 7--A Family Scene" (#91) "No. 22--Sampan!" "No. 3--A Celestial Cab."
