Two Japanese women and a baby in a jinrikisha, pulled by a Japanese man.
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1900
Materials
Paper
Measurements
Image size 135 x 88 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520767.18
Summary
A hand-coloured albumen print photograph in portrait format, depicting two Japanese women and a baby in a jinrikisha (rickshaw), pulled by a Japanese man. All are in traditional Japanese dress and one woman carries a parasol. They are on a dirt road, with trees and a hillside behind them.
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