Sale 2406 Lot 13

WILLIAM SAUNDERS (1832-1892)  An album entitled Sketches of Chinese Life and Character. 
An extraordinary album with 50 hand-colored photographs depicting exotic scenes in Shanghai and a host of occupational studies. Albumen prints, 9 1/4x8 3/4 inches (23.5x22.2 cm.), and the reverse, in an assortment of oval, arch-topped and rectilinear formats; each with a printed caption label with the print number affixed to mount recto. With 2 additional mounted albumen photographs, the first of a Chinese professional (a banker?) who is depicted with his large family, and the second a group portrait in which this same official is shown with Asian and Western professionals, which is inscribed "Yours tc, Clapp & Co.," in ink, on mount verso. Oblong small folio, 1/4 morocco, worn; contents tight. 1871-72 


Estimate $25,000 - 35,000