Albert d'Amade - Thomas Child - Lai Afong and others - Lot 74

Albert d'Amade - Thomas Child - Lai Afong and others China, c. 1875-1890. Equestrian portrait of an officer of the Peï Tchi Li army. Great Wall. Ruins of Yuanmingyuan. Yellow Temple. Sacred Way of the Ming Tombs. Porter. Beijing. Foreign legations district. Entrance to the Forbidden City. Fortification and Forbidden City canal. Pe-Tang Cathedral. Beihai Park and Qionghua Island. Jade Bridge. Summer Palace Marble Bridge. China Gate. Li Hongzhang. The French consulate in Tien-Tsin. Tomb of Eugène A. Chantre, attached to the French Legation. Port and junks. Album in-4, bound in half-maroquin with corners, composed of 25 albumen prints, mounted on cardboard. Size of prints: from 20 x 24 to 29.5 x 23 cm The identification of Albert d'Amade (a French general) as one of the album's photographers is made possible by the fact that part of his work in China has been preserved in the ECPAD collections.