Oct 17, 2014 - Sale 2361

Sale 2361 - Lot 1

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
SAUNDERS, WILLIAM (1832-1892)
"No.19--Cobblers." Oval hand-tinted albumen print of Chinese Cobblers in Shanghai, approximately 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), with a typed caption affixed to recto. Circa 1860

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Saunders depicted itinerant shoemakers, who moved from village to village repairing and fashioning silk, cotton, and leather shoes for local customers, in his classic style.