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26 25 A JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINT, SIGNED KUNISADA two kabuki scenes, including Danjuro and Hashu Provenance Acquired by Chapin Riley in Japan, August 1931, and presented to Higgins the following October JWHA Inv. No. 372 ‡ £50-80
27 UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER, PROBABLY JAPANESE CIRCA 1920: BURTON HOLMES AND A SAMURAI DISPLAY framed and glazed 26.8 cm; 10½ in by 31.8 cm; 12½in Provenance Mrs. Edmond Mark Paulin, Rye Beach, New Hampshire, presented to J.W. Higgins 29 July 1957 JWHA Inv. No. 6233
26 A JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINT, SIGNED KUNISADA two kabuki scenes involving Gohenge Provenance Acquired by Chapin Riley in Japan, August 1931, and presented to Higgins the following October JWHA Inv. No. 376 ‡ £50-80
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Burton Holmes was born into a prosperous Chicago family in 1870. From an early age he enjoyed travel and as an adult roamed the globe each summer for over fifty years and toured American auditoria in winter. During the 1945-6 season, aged 75, he gave 157 two-hour lectures. It was from these lectures that he first coined the term Travelogue in 1904 to advertise his unique live stage presentations. Sophisticated and elegantly attired, Holmes has been described as the world’s most famous traveller during the first half of the 20th century. He died in 1958 and his company, Burton Holmes International, survived into the 1970s. ‡ £30-50