Japanese Works of Art - 15th November 2022
Lot 185
ADOLFO FARSARI (1841-98)
Estimate £150 - £250 | Hammer £700
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Description
ADOLFO FARSARI (1841-98)
19TH CENTURY, C.1887
An album of fifty early photographs of Japan, albumen silver prints, some hand-tinted; opening on a frontispiece titled 'Japan, A. Farsari & Co., Yokohama', before a collage of various images; the album containing forty-nine further pictures including views of Mount Fuji, Nagasaki, Kyoto, Enoshima, and other locations, and portraits of beauties, craftsmen at work, and other figures enjoying daily pursuits, some portraits staged in studio settings, some pictures with titles, the album 6cm x 29.4 x 36cm.