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[Travel & Exploration]. Beato, Felice (1832-1909). An album containing photographs of Mandalay, ca 1
[Travel & Exploration]. Beato, Felice (1832-1909). An album containing photographs of Mandalay, ca 1886.
11 x 14 1/2 in. album in half morocco gilt (light rubbing to extremities, label affixed to cover), containing 44 photographs mounted recto/verso on album pages, each photo 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.; accompanied by manuscript captions written below the images. Approximately 25 photographs by Felice Beato, 12 by Fred Bremner (1863-1941), and numerous others unidentified, several likely by Beato. Subjects include views of Mandalay Hill; the Royal Palace and throne; the “Centre of the Universe”; the Mingun (“Monster”) Pagoda and Great Bell; the Royal Garden; Burmese women and villagers; and other views and scenes of Mandalay and its environs.
[With:] printed catalogue laid in, titled "Catalogue of a Series of Photographic View, Costumes and Military Groups of Mandalay and its Environs. Taken by Signor F. Beato and U. Deleuze."
One of the great pioneers of nineteenth-century photography, Felice Beato spent a remarkably itinerant career documenting Asia's rapidly changing world, from the aftermath of the Indian Mutiny and the Second Opium War to Japan and Korea. After photographing the Anglo-Sudan War, Beato settled in Burma in 1887, where Mandalay became the final great center of his photographic career. Traveling extensively through Upper Burma, he recorded its palaces, monasteries, pagodas, landscapes and people at a moment of profound transition following the British annexation of the kingdom in 1885.
By the 1890s, Beato had established a prominent studio and later a celebrated curio business in Mandalay, supplying photographs and Burmese works of art to an expanding Western clientele. His extensive record of the former royal capital remains among the most important photographic documents of late nineteenth-century Burma. Among his most celebrated subjects was the Palace’s great seven-tiered spire above the Lion Throne, traditionally conceived as the symbolic “Centre of the Universe.” The present group is supplemented by photographs by the Scottish photographer Fred Bremner, whose long career in British India produced an important record of the architecture, landscapes and peoples of the subcontinent.
This lot is located in Chicago.
[Travel & Exploration]. Beato, Felice (1832-1909). An album containing photographs of Mandalay, ca 1886.
11 x 14 1/2 in. album in half morocco gilt (light rubbing to extremities, label affixed to cover), containing 44 photographs mounted recto/verso on album pages, each photo 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.; accompanied by manuscript captions written below the images. Approximately 25 photographs by Felice Beato, 12 by Fred Bremner (1863-1941), and numerous others unidentified, several likely by Beato. Subjects include views of Mandalay Hill; the Royal Palace and throne; the “Centre of the Universe”; the Mingun (“Monster”) Pagoda and Great Bell; the Royal Garden; Burmese women and villagers; and other views and scenes of Mandalay and its environs.
[With:] printed catalogue laid in, titled "Catalogue of a Series of Photographic View, Costumes and Military Groups of Mandalay and its Environs. Taken by Signor F. Beato and U. Deleuze."
One of the great pioneers of nineteenth-century photography, Felice Beato spent a remarkably itinerant career documenting Asia's rapidly changing world, from the aftermath of the Indian Mutiny and the Second Opium War to Japan and Korea. After photographing the Anglo-Sudan War, Beato settled in Burma in 1887, where Mandalay became the final great center of his photographic career. Traveling extensively through Upper Burma, he recorded its palaces, monasteries, pagodas, landscapes and people at a moment of profound transition following the British annexation of the kingdom in 1885.
By the 1890s, Beato had established a prominent studio and later a celebrated curio business in Mandalay, supplying photographs and Burmese works of art to an expanding Western clientele. His extensive record of the former royal capital remains among the most important photographic documents of late nineteenth-century Burma. Among his most celebrated subjects was the Palace’s great seven-tiered spire above the Lion Throne, traditionally conceived as the symbolic “Centre of the Universe.” The present group is supplemented by photographs by the Scottish photographer Fred Bremner, whose long career in British India produced an important record of the architecture, landscapes and peoples of the subcontinent.
This lot is located in Chicago.
