Three Japanese women.
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1900
Materials
Paper
Measurements
Image size 89 x 134 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520767.22
Summary
A hand-coloured albumen print photograph in landscape format, depicting a studio portrait of three Japanese women in traditional dress, with a backdrop scene of trees and countryside. Two women are standing and the third is crouching. Two have small baskets with flowers.
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