F.W. SUTTON and possibly another

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F.W. SUTTON and possibly another

Portraits of Stots-Bashi in full costume and 'usual' costume, 1867; the Prince of Satsuma with Admiral King and the Prince's retainer, 1866
Three hand-tinted albumen prints, each approx. 3½ x 2½ in., mounted together on card with printed paper labels on mount, the first two with titles and credit F.W. Sutton, the other with title only, printed descriptive text from Beato's series relating to another photograph on verso. (3)

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Tokugawa Yoshinobu, formerly known as Hitotsubashi (Stots-Bashi), was the fifteenth and last Tokugawa Shogun in Japan from the Bakumatsu period. He was overthrown by Shimadgu Saburo, the Satsuma prince in 1868.

An engraving after the photograph of the Shogun in full court costume appears in William Elliot Griffis' The Mikado's Empire, vol. 1, p. 314, (illus.)

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