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JINDRA (LUDWIG) Twenty-four views of China, including major sites in Beijing, street views and l...
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JINDRA (LUDWIG) Twenty-four views of China, including major sites in Beijing, street views and local life, gelatin silver print photographs, on card, ink captions in English, and photographer's stamp ('Ludvig [sic] Jindra. Fotograaf-Vredenburg') on verso, window-mounted, images approximately 320 x 380mm. (or 380 x 320mm.), [1930s, printed later] Footnotes: Fine series of views of Beijing Imperial buildings, street scenes and traders in 1930s China taken by Czech photographer Ludwig Jindra (1897-1981). Images comprise: 'Gateway to Peiping [Beijing]', 'Chinese Pavilion', 'Chinese Pagoda', 'Obelisk in Peiping [Dragon column, Forbidden City, Beijing]', 'Chinese Bridge [Jade Belt Bridge, Imperial Summer Palace]', 'Peiping [Beijing] Winter Palace', 'Gate in Great China Wall', 'Chinese dragon in bronze [?Imperial Winter Palace]', 'Chinese teahouse on waterfront', 'Pre-war Chiang Kai-Shek ex soldier', 'Street barber', 'North China winter camel transport', 'Street kitchen', 'Artisans on way to work', 'Transporting wares', 'Legless beggar', 'Beggar with leprous fingers', 'The adaptability of one wheeled transport', 'One wheeled passenger transport', 'Scene in a Chinese courtyard', 'Farmer transporting grain', 'Typical mode of transport in mountain regions', 'Chinese straw house', and 'Chinese shack'. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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JINDRA (LUDWIG) Twenty-four views of China, including major sites in Beijing, street views and local life, gelatin silver print photographs, on card, ink captions in English, and photographer's stamp ('Ludvig [sic] Jindra. Fotograaf-Vredenburg') on verso, window-mounted, images approximately 320 x 380mm. (or 380 x 320mm.), [1930s, printed later] Footnotes: Fine series of views of Beijing Imperial buildings, street scenes and traders in 1930s China taken by Czech photographer Ludwig Jindra (1897-1981). Images comprise: 'Gateway to Peiping [Beijing]', 'Chinese Pavilion', 'Chinese Pagoda', 'Obelisk in Peiping [Dragon column, Forbidden City, Beijing]', 'Chinese Bridge [Jade Belt Bridge, Imperial Summer Palace]', 'Peiping [Beijing] Winter Palace', 'Gate in Great China Wall', 'Chinese dragon in bronze [?Imperial Winter Palace]', 'Chinese teahouse on waterfront', 'Pre-war Chiang Kai-Shek ex soldier', 'Street barber', 'North China winter camel transport', 'Street kitchen', 'Artisans on way to work', 'Transporting wares', 'Legless beggar', 'Beggar with leprous fingers', 'The adaptability of one wheeled transport', 'One wheeled passenger transport', 'Scene in a Chinese courtyard', 'Farmer transporting grain', 'Typical mode of transport in mountain regions', 'Chinese straw house', and 'Chinese shack'. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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