JAPAN - FELICE BEATO 1832-1909 - Lot 51

JAPAN - FELICE BEATO 1832-1909 "Views of Japan", album featuring views of Japan, some animated, 1868. Photographs. Album of 25 albumen prints with captions on English typewritten sheets mounted on the pages. Satsuma Palace, Edo (Yedo): Taikun cemetery, men around the torii of the Atango Yama temple, inner moat of the castle, shogun's palace (Tycoon's Palace): summer garden, moat; Nagasaki: Shun-to-Koji temple cemetery, panorama, harbor entrance (Papenberg), view of Mississippi Bay, temple street, Native Town in Nagasaki: fisherman, water mill, Buddhist monks in front of a belfry, view from Battery Hill, bridge linking Desima and Nagasaki, aristocratic tea house, cremation in Nagasaki's oldest cemetery, temple of the god of war at Shimonoseki. Images: 20 x 26.1 cm to 23.2 x 28.7 cm; album: 36.5 x 49 cm This album features views by Beato, mainly of Edo and Nagasaki. After the fire that destroyed his studio in 1866, Beato had to undertake new photographic campaigns, which led to the creation of two series: "Natives types" and "Views of Japan". The album comes from this second series and is presented here in an exceptional state of preservation.