Lantern and pine tree at Miyajima in Japan
Category
Photographs
Date
1909
Materials
Glass
Measurements
120 x 164 x 2 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1522899.37
Summary
Gelatine silver glass dry plate negative in landscape format, depicting a stone lantern and a pine tree on a promontory at Miyajima in Japan. There is a boat in the distance. Additional information written on the sleeve (not original): April 30 1909, Miyajima, By lantern and pine on promontory. Ship behond. Foreground stream. S.S.O. F/16 1/5 Part of the Christie Miller Collection.
Provenance
Donated to the Fox Talbot Museum in 1976 by (the daughter of the photographer) Jane Wakefield Christie-Miller (1922-2017) of Swyncombe House, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 6EA