ISABELLA L BISHOP / BIRD (1831-1904)

ISABELLA L BISHOP / BIRD (1831-1904)

MEIJI PERIOD, C.1890

Views in the Far East, an album of sixty collotype plates depicting views and people in Korea, Japan, and China, with a stitched silk cover, 1.8cm x 17.8cm x 25.3cm.

Isabella Bishop (née Bird) was a formidable English writer and photographer who travelled extensively around the world following an operation in 1850 to remove a tumor on her spine. She published several books with illustrations depicting the local populations and culture she encountered.