Taiko-Bashi Bridge, Osaka, Japan
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1900
Materials
Paper
Measurements
Image size 89 x 134 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520767.28
Summary
A hand-coloured albumen print photograph in landscape format, depicting a view of Osaka, Japan with an arched wooden bridge, with statues and trees. The bridge is the Taiko-Bashi Bridge which leads to the Sumiyoshi Taisha (Sumiyoshi Grand Shrine). Captioned photographically in the negative is "View of Osaka".
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