View of Kawasaki, Japan.
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1900
Materials
Paper
Measurements
Image size 89 x 134 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520767.31
Summary
A hand-coloured albumen print photograph in landscape format, depicting a view of Kawasaki, Japan with the bay shore and boats on the water and at the jetty. A man is on the boat nearest the foreground and other people can be seen in the distance. Trees line the shores. Captioned photographically in the negative is "View of Kawasaki".
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