Album, 14.25 x 10.75 in., with leather spine with gilt designs and black enamel covers with fine painted and inlaid covers, containing 50 hand-colored photographs, one per page, with small painted figures in the margins of each page. The images are all 8 x 10.25 in. albumen prints with captions in English in the negatives, all neatly hand-colored, showing cityscapes, landmarks, and scenes of daily life and rituals in mid-to-late Meiji period Japan. Places shown include Tokyo, Kyoto, Yokohama, Nagoya, Enoshima, the shrines of Nikko, and two views of Mt. Fuji. Occupational scenes include women spinning cotton, men striking wheat, a rice plantation, men transporting rice bales on horseback, a samurai, a Shinto priest, Shinto pilgrims, a "blind shampooer," a pottery shop, a shoe shop, a grocery, a cloth store, "reading at home," "gathering the cocoons," "playing at ball," and more. Albums such as this were sold to overseas visitors to Japan, ca 1880s-1900s, who would choose their favorite scenes from the photography studio's stock and whether to pay extra for hand-coloring, fine binding, and artistic covers. We have offered a handful of examples over the years and this may be the finest, with more occupational and daily life scenes as opposed to the standard landmarks, and special touches such as the small hand-painted characters in the margins of each page. The photographs are all in excellent condition, with a leaf of tissue paper between each page, and the album itself is housed in the original padded box cloth with decorative wraps, which itself is housed in the original tin box used for shipment or transport to America. Provenance:Charles A. and Frances Swedlund Collection of Early Photography Condition: Prints are all excellent. Front cover with a horizontal crack about 3 in. from the bottom and missing the inlaid bone head of the rickshaw driver.
Album, 14.25 x 10.75 in., with leather spine with gilt designs and black enamel covers with fine painted and inlaid covers, containing 50 hand-colored photographs, one per page, with small painted figures in the margins of each page. The images are all 8 x 10.25 in. albumen prints with captions in English in the negatives, all neatly hand-colored, showing cityscapes, landmarks, and scenes of daily life and rituals in mid-to-late Meiji period Japan. Places shown include Tokyo, Kyoto, Yokohama, Nagoya, Enoshima, the shrines of Nikko, and two views of Mt. Fuji. Occupational scenes include women spinning cotton, men striking wheat, a rice plantation, men transporting rice bales on horseback, a samurai, a Shinto priest, Shinto pilgrims, a "blind shampooer," a pottery shop, a shoe shop, a grocery, a cloth store, "reading at home," "gathering the cocoons," "playing at ball," and more. Albums such as this were sold to overseas visitors to Japan, ca 1880s-1900s, who would choose their favorite scenes from the photography studio's stock and whether to pay extra for hand-coloring, fine binding, and artistic covers. We have offered a handful of examples over the years and this may be the finest, with more occupational and daily life scenes as opposed to the standard landmarks, and special touches such as the small hand-painted characters in the margins of each page. The photographs are all in excellent condition, with a leaf of tissue paper between each page, and the album itself is housed in the original padded box cloth with decorative wraps, which itself is housed in the original tin box used for shipment or transport to America. Provenance:Charles A. and Frances Swedlund Collection of Early Photography Condition: Prints are all excellent. Front cover with a horizontal crack about 3 in. from the bottom and missing the inlaid bone head of the rickshaw driver.
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