1 Item (Photographic print : on mount 37.8 x 30.4 cm, hand coloring, image 26.3 x 20.9 cm.)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Photographic prints
Place:
Asia
Japan
Date:
[ca. 1860s]
Scope and Contents:
Reprint of Beato original by studio of Kusakabe Kimbei. View of executed body tied to wooden double cross. Outdoor setting with trees in background.
According to Henry Rosin, the culprit's crime was murder.
Biographical / Historical:
Felice Beato was born in Venice around 1825. During his lifetime, he accompanied the British troops in India, recording images of the Indian Mutiny in 1857, and the Franco-British troops in China to cover the end of the Second Opium War in 1859. With his friend Charles Wirgman, Beato opened a photography studio in Yokohama, Japan in the early 1860s, and produced many images of the Japanese and their lifestyle, as interpreted by the Westerners. Selling his studio to Baron von Stillfried in 1877, Beato eventually died in Burma around 1908.
Local Numbers:
R291 (Rosin Number)
FSA A1999.35 291
General:
Title taken from label affixed to bottom of mount.
Negative number is printed in lower right corner of print.
Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan. FSA.A1999.35. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Purchase and partial donation.
