Japanese man in a field
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1900
Materials
Paper
Measurements
Image size 135 x 88 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520767.30
Summary
A hand-coloured albumen print photograph in portrait format, depicting a Japanese man in a field carrying a scythe over his shoulder, a hat in his hand and some flowers over his other shoulder. Behind him is a field of crops/plants in rows and trees in the distance.
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