A group of Japanese women playing musical instruments.
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1900
Materials
Paper
Measurements
Image size 89 x 134 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520767.17
Summary
A hand-coloured albumen print photograph in landscape format, depicting a group of seven Japanese women playing musical instruments, including a drums and a flute. They are wearing traditional dress and there is a horizontal striped background behind them. The woman on the far left is standing and the rest are kneeling.
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