JAPAN - FELICE BEATO 1832-1909 - FREDERICK WILLIAM SUTTON 18 - Lot 52

JAPAN - FELICE BEATO 1832-1909 - FREDERICK WILLIAM SUTTON 1832-1883 "Views of Japan", album featuring views of Japan by Beato and Sutton, 1863-1868. Photographs. Album with 59 color-enhanced prints, most of them captioned on typewritten sheets in English mounted on the pages. The last Tokugawa shogun Yoshinobu, Japanese officers fencing, water carrier in winter costume, chef artist, female traveler in costume, itinerant dentist, curiosity store, fisherman's boat house, officer in winter costume, blind man, samurai of the Chosyu clan during the Boshin War, Yaconin on a horse, woman carried in a norimono, pilgrim, Koboto Santaro : commander-in-chief of the shogun's army in Tosei armor, Japanese doctor and patient, Japanese family, barbers, "Ho-Ni" (hypocrite), crossing the ford at Sakawa-Nagawa, sumo wrestlers, young coolie, Japanese naval officer, high priest and assistant, La Belle de Yokohama, tattooed Betto, horseman, criminal awaiting sentence, Cangue torture, men playing Chai Moi; Atsunghi; Nagasaki: Dai-Oon-Ji temple, Daibutsu, coasters, Yokohama, couple at Mayonashi, large bell at Kobo-Daishi temple near Kawasaki, Shun-to-Koji temple cemetery, sleeping beauties, women with parasols, priests at prayer (Zen Shu), Japanese women in "Grecian Bend" posture, photograph of a work by Antoine Louis Roussin (1819-1894). This album includes large views by Beato taken in 1863 before the destruction of his studio. Finely enhanced, they include the spectacular portrait of Koboto Santaro, commander-in-chief of the shogun's army, as well as two geishas observing the "Grecian Bend" fashion, which spread to Europe thanks to the tea pavilion erected at the 1867 World's Fair. The latter consisted in reproducing the gracefully reclining postures of ancient Greek statues. Sutton's photographs, also taken around 1863, are striking in their quality, particularly the portrait of the last shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu. Images: 8.7 x 5.3 cm (23) to 23.7 x 29 cm (36); album: 36.4 x 49.5 cm