The Bund, Yokohama, Japan.
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1900
Materials
Paper
Measurements
Image size 89 x 137 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520767.46
Summary
A hand-coloured albumen print photograph in landscape format, depicting view of the Bund at Yokohama in Japan. The Bund is a waterfront area (literally "outer beach") with a long pier. Several boats are on the water in the foreground and a larger ship is moored at the far end of the pier. Captioned photographically in the negative is "Bund Yokohama".
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.