Japanese Meiji Era Photograph Album.
No date. (circa 1890). Stock ID #178093 Beautiful lacquered album containing a collection of 24 professionally produced hand coloured photographs of Japan in the 1870s -1880s. The identity of the photographers behind these hand-coloured prints of is uncertain but a number of the photos appear to have been taken by photographers associated with the Yokohama studio of English/Italian photographer Felice Beato (1832-1909), which operated in Yokohama from the mid-1860s to the mid-1880s. When referring to this item please quote stockid 178093.
24 large (23 x 29cm) hand coloured silver nitrate and albumen photographs in an attractive pictorial lacquer album, leather spine in compartments - rubbed at the spine, gilt dentelles and inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. Images show some colour breakdown with the colour red highlighted on some, album is a little rubbed or scratched in places, and some chips with loss to the edges. Faint foxing to a couple of images, somewhat heavier on the first image, the album measures 27.5 x 36.5cm. Large gift inscription dated '92 (1892)Yokohama. Endpapers marked and slightly soiled, still a handsome and very interesting album containing a number of unusual photographs.
Price: $2,500.00 AU