Japanese Woman Cooking by Shin E Do - Hand-Colored Albumen Print 1870/1890 1870/1890

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Japanese Woman Cooking by Shin E Do is an hand-inked Albumen print with aniline applied on hardcover. Very good conditions. … more Japanese Woman Cooking by Shin E Do is an hand-inked Albumen print with aniline applied on hardcover. Very good conditions. Cardboard cm 26 x 34; Print cm 27x 20.5 Yokohama School print (Yokohama Shashin), realized during the Meiji dinasty (1868-1912). This print show a visible blue ink stamp:''Photographers Shin-E-Do, Kobe, Japan''. . On the lower margin of the print some hand-written captions in black ink Italian on the cardboard. In the picture a young woman sitting on the floor while cutting fruits with a large knife. This particular typology of prints was born in Yokoama around 1860 by the Italian photographers Felice Beato and Raimund Von Stillfried , who, for the first time, experimented the production of hand-colored albumen by means of aniline colors in Japan. During the Meiji period, the Yokohama school produced prints for foreign customers, who, at the same time, sought both an image linked to an ''exotic'' aesthetic of uses, customs and landscapes, and a high quality product, the result by the famous Japanese craftsmanship. These photographs, made with a sublime technique for both printing and coloring, achieved enormous success so that the production, as a typology, remained unchanged for almost forty years, in which some ateliers acquired the reproduction rights of others, thus making very difficult the exact attribution. The extreme documentary value prints concerning the Japanese culture still today hand down us the last true images of the feudal culture which ended during the Meiji dynasty. This object is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any object in Italy created over 70 years ago by an artist, designer or craftsman who has died requires a license for export regardless of the work’s market price. The shipping may require additional handling days to require the license according to the final destination of the object. less