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.
1 Photographic print (Album 2, page 43, hand coloring, image 18.6 x 23.7 cm.; on mount 30.5 x 38.5 cm)
Container:
Volume 2, Page 43
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Photographs
Portraits
Place:
Asia
Japan
Date:
[1860 - ca. 1900]
Scope and Contents:
View of young family. The woman carries an infant on her back while the father carries a young child in a basket suspended from a pole across his shoulders.
Biographical / Historical:
Baron von Stillfried was an Austrian noble who arrived in Japan in 1868. In 1871, von Stillfried opened a photo studio in Yokohama under the name, Messrs. Stillfried & Co. In 1877, in partnership with Hermann Anderson, von Stillfried bought Felice Beato's studio and negatives, and continued to take photographs of Japanese people. He eventually left Japan for Hong Kong in 1881.
Local Numbers:
R387 (Rosin Number).
FSA A1999.35 387
General:
Forms part of Rosin album number 2. Page 43.
Included in an album produced by the studio of Tamamura Kozaburo.
Title devised by Henry and Nancy Rosin.
Negative number taken from lower left 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.
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture purchased with funds provided by the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center
acrylic and oil paint, graphite, bristol board, metal leaf, natural and synthetic cloth fabric, nylon tulle, polyester and cotton thread, and crystal glass beads on wood panel
Dimensions:
H x W x D (a: wood panel): 24 × 16 1/8 × 1 9/16 in. (61 × 40.9 × 4 cm)
H x W (b: quilt panel): 20 1/2 × 15 15/16 in. (52 × 40.5 cm)
Type:
panel paintings
fiber art
portraits
mixed media
Place made:
Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North and Central America