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Object Number
2003.1.2223.361
Display Title
Two Japanese performers in full costume with swords, one with makeup
Descriptions
Object Description
Two Japanese performers in full costume with swords, one with makeup. 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
Print of 2 Japanese performers in full costume with swords, 1 with makeup
Department
Photographic
Date
ca. 1870
Artist
Baron Raimund von Stillfried Rathenitz
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia
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Japan
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Kanagawa
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Honshu
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Yokohama
Materials
Albumen print
Dimensions
Overall: 23.15 x 18.7 cm (9 1/8 x 7 3/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Mary Lothrop, 1927
Provenance
Collector
Dr. William Sturgis Bigelow
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