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Two sumo wrestlers engaged in a match
Two sumo wrestlers engaged in a match
Object Number 2003.1.2223.351
Display Title Two sumo wrestlers engaged in a match
Descriptions
Object Description Two sumo wrestlers engaged in a match. Print from PA-IN60-41, nineteenth century commercial photographic studio views of Japan. Subjects include portaiture as well as studio se-up scenes of Japanese "daily life." Photographs are primarily albumen prints, many with applied color. Many of the photographs in this collection can be found in "A Timely Encounter: 19th Century Photographs of Japan." Photographs were exhibited in Peabody Museum and Wellesley college joint exhibition.
Inventory Description Portrait of 2 sumo wrestlers engaged in a match
Department Photographic
Date ca. 1870
Artist Baron Raimund von Stillfried Rathenitz
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / Japan / Kanagawa / Honshu / Yokohama
Materials Albumen print
Dimensions Overall: 23.6 x 19.2 cm (9 5/16 x 7 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Credit Line Gift of Miss Mary Lothrop, 1927
Provenance
Collector Dr. William Sturgis Bigelow
Donor Donated by Mary B. Lothrop

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