Los 4036

Burma
Views of Rangoon

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 6.6.2026

Photographers: Felice Beato (1832-1909), Philip Adolphe Klier (1845-1911), and others. Views of Rangoon. Late 1880s-early 1890s. 30 albumen prints, mounted to album pages. Each ca. 21,5 x 27,5 cm or reverse (mounts ca. 30 x 40 cm). Each annotated in blue ink below the image on the mount. Bound in green half-leather album with gilt tooling and gilt-ornamented endpapers.

The album presents views of Rangoon and its surroundings, including temple complexes with multi-tiered pagodas, monasteries, and devotional scenes with monks and pilgrims. Other photographs depict urban and commercial life, such as market scenes, river transport on the Irrawaddy, and elephants hauling timber. Ethnographic portraits and group scenes of Burmese families and townspeople further illustrate local dress and everyday life, including a large group portrait posed before a traditional raised wooden residence.