1 Photographic print (Album 1, page 10, hand coloring, image 26.5 x 20.8 cm.; on mount 26 x 33.5 cm)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Photographs
Place:
Asia
Japan
Nikko (Japan)
Date:
[1860 - ca. 1900]
Scope and Contents:
View of pagoda, torii, and stone lantern at Nikko.
Photographer unidentified.
Local Numbers:
R302 (Rosin Number).
FSA A1999.35 302
General:
Forms part of Rosin album number 1. Page 10.
Title taken from label affixed to bottom center of mount.
This album, with covers of lacquer and ivory, was produced by a shop which used photographs by Beato, Von Stillfried, Kimbei, and others, without including their descriptions or numbers. Each photograph is described by a label affixed below the print. The work is almost certainly by A. Farsari, who owned the stock of all of these photographs in the 1880s. Kimbei kept some stock he had purchased from Von Stillfried in his own shop. Confusion and uncertainty regarding attribution of 19th century Japanese photography is well-discussed in published material.
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.