Coolie
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- R145 (Rosin Number) FSA A1999.35 145
- General
- Rosin number 145.
- Title taken from description of print on verso.
- A rare description of the print is on verso. This description details the life of the "Coolie," also known in Japanese as "Ninsoku."
- Photographer
- Beato, Felice, b. ca. 1825
- Collector
- Rosin, Henry D., Dr.
- Rosin, Nancy
- Photographer
- Beato, Felice, b. ca. 1825
- Collection Collector
- Rosin, Henry D., Dr.
- Collection Creator
- Lyman, Benjamin Smith, 1835-1920
- Ueno, Hikoma, 1838-1904
- Beato, Felice, b. ca. 1825
- Collection Collector
- Rosin, Nancy
- Collection Creator
- Stillfried, Raimund, Baron von, 1839-1911
- Underwood & Underwood
- Place
- Asia
- Japan
- Topic
- Photography -- Japan
- Photography -- 19th century
- Laborers
- Portraits
- Photographer
- Beato, Felice, b. ca. 1825
- Collector
- Rosin, Henry D., Dr.
- Rosin, Nancy
- See more items in
- Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan
- 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.
- Extent
- 1 Item (Photographic print : on mount 47.6 x 39.4 cm, hand coloring, image 26.9 x 21.5 cm.)
- Date
- [1860 - ca. 1900]
- Container
- Box 10, Item R145
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A1999.35, Item FSA A1999.35 145
- Type
- Archival materials
- Photographs
- Photographs
- Photographic prints
- Collection Citation
- Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan. FSA.A1999.35. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
- Genre/Form
- Photographs
- Photographic prints
- Scope and Contents
- A laborer stands with his staff and rope next to a wall in an outdoor setting.
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1643210100175-1643210104548-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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