Fuji Yama, from the New Road

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Artist/Maker	Beato, Felice (Photographer)
Place of origin	Japan (photographed)

'Unlike so many images we know - from airline posters to bento boxes -
Beato's photograph allows Fuji its proper place. Centrally placed, symmetrical, weightless and ghost-like, it rests where a god might, better to consider the commonplace world of photographers and farmers below.' John Riddy

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Category	Photographs
Object type	Photograph
Title	Fuji Yama, from the New Road (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Albumen print
Brief description	'Fuji Yama, from the New Road', 1868 from the album Views of Japan, Vol. 1 by Felice Beato (ca.1825 - ca.1908)
Physical description	Photograph in album 'Photographic View of Japan I', 1868, by Beato F, 'Fuji-Yama from the New Road'. Mount Fuji is shown in the distance behind a field. Album has these notes: 'With historical and descriptive notes compiled from authentic sources and from personal observation during a residence of several years. By James William Murray, Assistant Commissary General. Yokohama, 1868. Printed at the Japan Gazette Office.'
Gallery label	'Unlike so many images we know - from airline posters to bento boxes - Beato's photograph allows Fuji its proper place. Centrally placed, symmetrical, weightless and ghost-like, it rests where a god might, better to consider the commonplace world of photographers and farmers below.' John Riddy(20/02/2006)
Credit line	Given by Mrs James Wheatley 1918
Place depicted	Mount Fuji
Summary	'Unlike so many images we know - from airline posters to bento boxes - Beato's photograph allows Fuji its proper place. Centrally placed, symmetrical, weightless and ghost-like, it rests where a god might, better to consider the commonplace world of photographers and farmers below.' John Riddy
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	260-1918

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Record created	December 2, 2005
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O119337/fuji-yama-from-the-new-photograph-beato-felice/

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