Four Japanese women eating soba noodles.
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1900
Materials
Paper
Measurements
Image size 89 x 134 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520767.13
Summary
A hand-coloured albumen print photograph in landscape format, depicting four Japanese women eating soba noodles and taking tea. There are four women in traditional dress, one standing and three kneeling on the floor on a woven mat. There are boxes of soba noodles on the floor, a tea pot and cups on a tray. In the background is a panelled wall and traditional painted Japanese wall hanging.
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986