Three Japanese women with book, fan and shamisen.
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1900
Materials
Paper
Measurements
Image size 89 x 134 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520767.14
Summary
A hand-coloured albumen print photograph in landscape format, depicting three Japanese women in traditional dress, kneeling on the floor on a woven mat. The woman on the left of the image is reading, the women in the centre is holding a fan and the woman on the right is playing a shamisen (3 stringed instrument).
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