Lot 95.  Choosing Vegetables

Vintage Japanese albumen print with applied hand coloring, by Kusakabe Kimbei, early to mid-1880s. Depicting a woman selecting vegetables from a street peddler. Print size 8 x 10.25 inches (20x26 cm).

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This uncommon, early print of Kimbei's image predates his studio's later insertion of subject titles and numbers into the negatives. It corresponds to #200 "Vegetable Pedler" in Kimbei's catalog of works.

Mounted on period album page.