A boat on a river in Japan.
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1900
Materials
Paper
Measurements
Image size 89 x 137 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520767.33
Summary
A hand-coloured albumen print photograph in landscape format, depicting a view of a tree-lined river in Japan. There is a small sailing boat on the water, with a man standing up, using a pole to propel and steer the boat.
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.