A collection of 89 late nineteenth-century hand-coloured albumen paper photographs of Japan is offered as one lot
The material ranges from standard fare (iconic structures, picturesque landscapes, exotic costumes) to most interesting and unusual street-level documentary images. These large-format prints (84 are approximately 205 × 270 mm each, three are a little larger, and two are panoramas measuring 120 × 300 mm) have never been mounted, and..... More