Cobbler, Hong Kong (?)
Albumen print, c. 1870s
8-9/10, slight yellowing at top and bottom; 237 x 168 mm, unmounted
$1500.
A good Afong Studio study, part of a series of people at work. Illustrated in Bennett, History of Photography in China. Chinese Photographers 1844-1879. Quaritch, 2013, p. 87.
Group of children, Methodists Episcopalian Mission School, Foochow
Albumen print, 1870s
8-9/10; 156 x 214, unmounted
$1350.
Manadarin graves and Camphorwood Tree, Foochow
Albumen print, c. 1870
7/10; 218 x 284 mm, unmounted
$1350.
Afong Studio view probably from his first series of studies in Foochow. Titled in period writing on verso and labelled 'No. 86.'