A portrait of two Japanese women.
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1900
Materials
Paper
Measurements
Image size 134 x 88 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520767.3
Summary
A hand-coloured albumen print photograph in portrait format, depicting a half length portrait of two Japanese women in traditional dress, in front of a plain background. The bottom of the image is slightly vignetted. The woman on the left of the image has her arms around the shoulders of the woman on the right and they are holding hands.
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