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FARSARI (A.) & CO.
Views & Costumes of Japan, [1880s]

14 September 2021, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £828.75 inc. premium

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FARSARI (A.) & CO.

Views & Costumes of Japan, albumen print title within decorative border, 50 colour tinted albumen prints, all numbered and captioned in English within the negative, mounted one per page recto and verso on thick card, original leather-backed decorative lacquer boards, the upper cover with a scene of birds and tree blossoms with bone and mother of pearl onlays, g.e., spine worn, images approximately 190 x 245mm., oblong 4to (sheets 275 x 340mm.), [1880s]

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Fine album including genre portraits and groups (7), along with architectural and topographical views of Fuji, Nikko, Hokone, Kiga, Iyeyasu, Ojaka, Gia Machi, Marayuma, and elsewhere.

"Adolfo Farsari (1841–1898) was an Italian photographer who established a successful business in Yokohama – Farsari & Co. – the last of the pioneering and influential foreign-owned studios to thrive in Japan. After a fire destroyed much of his photographic stock, in 1886 Farsari traversed the country compiling a new set of negatives, which over the ensuing years formed the basis of the studio's output, bought by tourists and travellers as Japan opened increasingly to the West. Regarded as a luxury product, the photographs were hand-painted by highly skilled artists, and advertised for their fidelity to life... 'Views and Costumes of Japan' is one of the finest examples of its kind, bound inside decorated covers and featuring hand-coloured prints of the highest quality" (Philip Grover, Pitt Rivers Museum website).

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