Sale 2458 - Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks, October 19, 2017

12 12 c (CHINA) Group of 5 photographs of Chinese subjects, including a young woman whose tiny bound feet are visible. Also includes a womanwhose feet are obscured, a group of musicians, an unidentified Mandarin figure, and a couple. Albumen (3) and printing-out paper (2) prints, the images measuring 5 1 / 2 x4 inches (14x10.2 cm.), one sheet slightly larger. 1880s-90s [1,200/1,800] 13 c PIERRE-LOUIS PIERSON (1822-1913) Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, with a parasol. Albumen print, the image measuring 12 1 / 2 x9 1 / 2 inches (31.8x24.1 cm.), with a partial caption and a numeric notation, in the negative, and additional numeric nota­ tions, in pencil, on verso. Circa 1859 [3,000/4,500] 13