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A LITHOGRAPH PRINT BY ELIZABETH KEITH (1887-1956)
20 CENTURY
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Depicting two Korean court musicians in traditional outfits, one playing the flute and the other the gayageum, a zither-like instrument with twelve strings, signed
in pencil Elizabeth Keith and numbered 30/50, 40cm x 27cm.
£400-600
Elizabeth Keith (1887-1956) was a Scottish artist who specialised in print-making and watercolours. She was significantly influenced by her extensive travels in Asia,
producing many portraits of Japanese, Korean and Chinese people engaged in daily activities.

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A LARGE JAPANESE PRINTED MAP OF TOKYO
MEIJI PERIOD, 19 CENTURY
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Orientated to the West and printed on four sheets of paper, showing the old centre of Edo with the Imperial palace and the mouth of the river Sumida, with
areas and details picked out in red and blue and with a compass rose device, framed and glazed, 91cm x 64cm.
£200-300
The inscription in the lower left corner lists ‘the eighteen most famous pine trees of Tokyo’ with their locations and so this map was probably aimed at Japanese visitors
sightseeing in the city.

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