Citters, Adolf Jacobus van

61 glossy silver prints (117 x 167mm., or the reverse), each loosely inserted into a card mount, most captioned in ink in Dutch on the reverse of the mount, the collection housed in a contemporary fitted buckram box, some wear to the box

Private collection in the Netherlands

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
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Adolf Jacobus van Citters was Dutch Minister plenipotentiary at Peking from 1903 to 1908. He took many photographs during his residency and 245 of van Citter's original glass negatives of China are preserved in the National Museum of Ethnology (Kerncollectie Fotografie, Museum Volkenkunde) in Leiden. These photographs were acquired with another album of photographs of China taken at the same period (see lot 192).