16th Nov, 2024 20:00

OstLicht Photo Auction Autumn 2024 at Fotografiska Shanghai

 
Lot 3
 

ANONYMOUS PHOTOGRAPHER | Album 'Views of the North China Affair', 1901
未知摄影师 | 《北清事件》影集

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Lot details

Start price: € 3,400

Estimate: € 5,000–7,000

Start price: RMB 26,000

Estimate: RMB 38,000–55,000

Size: c. 20 x 28 cm

Album with paper pages and original colour pictorial wrappers 26.5 x 39 cm, bound with violet ribbons; 106 collotype illustrations from photographs on 57 plates with captions in English and Japanese, introduction in Japanese, in very good condition. Edited by Sanshichiro Yamamoto, Kanda Nishikicho, Tokyo, Japan 1901.

The images show group portraits of military members at the Beijing Legation Quarter, staff officers from Europe, America and Russia, their garrisons and fortifications as well as sites destroyed during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 and views of the Imperial Palace, and many temples, gates, bridges and towers. Rare.

纸页相册,原彩色图画封面,26.5 x 39 厘米,用紫色丝带装订;57 页上有 106 幅照片的珂罗版插图,附有英文和日文的说明、日文介绍,状况非常好。由山本三七郎编辑,1901 年日本东京神田西神田町。影像展示了北京使馆区的军人集体肖像、来自欧洲、美国和俄罗斯的参谋军官,他们的驻军和防御工事,以及在1900年义和团运动中被毁的遗址,还有紫禁城的景观,以及许多寺庙、城门、桥梁和塔楼。稀有。