LOT DETAILS
Materials:
27 albumen prints, showing 18 views and one double portrait, on 19 individual mounts
Size Notes:
mounts; prints: from 20.1 x 16.6cm to 24.5 x 29.5cm, or the reverse; 2-plate panoramas: from 22.3 x 27.3cm to 23.5 x 59.6cm; 6-plate panorama: 21.7 x 173.3cm
Description:
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Markings:
together with a leaf signed and dated by the original owner ("E.H. Courtney / Lt. R.E. / China. 1860"), each photograph captioned by Courtney in ink on the mount
Literature:
Harris, David. Of Battle and Beauty. Felice Beato's Photographs of China. (Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1999); Bennett, T. History of Photography in China 1842-1860 (London: Quaritch, 2009, pp. 141-162); Lacoste, Anne. Felice Beato. A Photographer on the Eastern Road. (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010)
Provenance:
Purchased from the photographer by Lieut. (later Major General) Edward Henry Courtney, Royal Engineers (1836-1913)