Views of Japan, Volume II
Photograph
1868 (photographed)
1868 (photographed)
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Hand-tinted sepia-coloured photograph bound in album with 99 other prints.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Hand-tinted albumen print |
| Brief description | Photograph by Felice Beato, 'Two Grooms Showing Their Tattoos' from the album Views of Japan Vol. II, hand-tinted sepia-coloured photograph, 1868 |
| Physical description | Hand-tinted sepia-coloured photograph bound in album with 99 other prints. |
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| Credit line | Given by Mrs James Wheatley |
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| Bibliographic reference | Jeffrey, Ian. 'The Photography Book'. London: Phaidon 1997
Beato, the first Western photographer to take pictures in China, was accompanying a British and French expeditionary force sent to conclude a treaty with the Manchu government in the north of the country. Beato worked originally with James Robertson, whom he met in Malta in 1850. Together they took pictures of the Fall of Sebastopol in the Crimean War of 1855, and then the aftermath of the Indian Mutiny in 1857-8. Robertson remained in India when Beato went on to China. Between 1862 and 1877 he worked in Japan. |
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| Accession number | 374-1918 |
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| Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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