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PHOTOGRAPHY Group of 16 photographs, [1870s-1880s] image 1
PHOTOGRAPHY Group of 16 photographs, [1870s-1880s] image 2
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Lot 41

PHOTOGRAPHY
Group of 16 photographs, [1870s-1880s]

1 February 2017, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£4,000 - £6,000

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Group of 16 photographs, albumen prints, unmounted, one captioned in negative, 2 with ink captions in sky areas, 200 x 270mm. and slightly smaller, [1870s-1880s]

Footnotes

Images include: Peking (pagoda at the Summer Palace, Yuanmingyuan; Changling Tomb; Gate of the Wofo Temple; Temple of Heaven, 2 prints from the same negative; general view over Qianmen Street from the Chien Men; Longevity Hill / Wanshou Shan; Tongzhou Pagoda); monumental arch at Ningpo, by Major J.C. Watson but with very small caption in negative not found in other prints; view of Yuyao by Watson; Buddhist temple in Amoy; Confucius Temple from the water, Nanjing; Shanghai (Yu Gardens; dilapidated pagoda near the city).

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