Los 4025

China
Views of Shanghai

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 29.11.2025

Photographers: William Saunders (1832-1892), Henry Cammidge (active ca. 1880-1910), and unknown. Views of Shanghai. 1870s-1900s. 9 albumen prints. Each between 19,5 x 25,5 cm and 22 x 28 cm. Some annotated in the negative or in pencil on the verso.

This group of photographs offers a richly detailed visual record of Shanghai from the 1880s to the early 1900s. Included are views of the Bund with its colonial-era architecture, the Garden Bridge spanning Suzhou Creek, and the entrance gate to the Yu Garden. Additional images depict the Willow Pattern Tea House, the Tian Fei Gong temple, bustling scenes along Nanjing Road, and traditional canal-side dwellings. Together, the photographs reflect the city’s architectural diversity and dynamic urban landscape at a time of rapid modernization shaped by both Chinese tradition and foreign commercial influence. – Some fading, especially around the edges of the prints; small tears, creases, and pressure marks; otherwise all in good to very good condition.