1.5 Linear Feet
(1 album containing 151 photographs; 21 loose photographic
prints)
Abstract:
The album, compiled by G. Prat, a
French silk inspector working in China in the latter part of the nineteenth century,
contains 151 albumen photographs of China and Japan. The album's visual focus is on the
ports and trading centers of China's Pearl River Delta. Present are 98 views of Guangzhou
(Canton); six of Hong Kong; and 11 of Macau. Additionally, there are 16 images on eight
pages depicting the Canton Amateur Theatrical Society's (CATS) productions, and 20
photographs of Japan, 19 of which are hand colored. Photographers include Lai Fong and
Kusakabe Kinbē. Extensive commentary written on the mount borders forms Prat's compendium
on China in which he addresses any number of topics from history, geography, climate,
agriculture, religion, language and dialects, and business practices to family life, sedan
chairs, etiquette, costume and dress, and opium, to a lexicon of colonial Asian terms. The
album is accompanied by 21 loose albumen prints and a manuscript listing photographs to be
acquired.
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Language:
Collection material is in
French
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute Special Collections 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100 Los Angeles 90049-1688 reference@getty.edu URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref (310) 440-7390
