Two Japanese women.
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1900
Materials
Paper
Measurements
Image size 134 x 88 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520767.2
Summary
A hand-coloured albumen print photograph in portrait format, depicting a full length portrait of two Japanese women in traditional dress, in front of a panelled wall and landscape painting. The woman on the left of the image is kneeling behind a low table, reading a scroll of paper. The woman on the right of the image is standing and resting her hands on a shamisen (3-stringed traditional Japanese musical 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