Daibutsu or bronze image at Nara
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- R329 (Rosin Number). FSA A1999.35 329
- General
- Forms part of Rosin album number 1. Page 37.
- Title taken from label affixed to bottom of mount.
- Short description detailing the dimensions of the Daibutsu is printed on label affixed to bottom 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.
- Album Information
- rosinalbum1 037
- Collector
- Rosin, Henry D., Dr.
- Rosin, Nancy
- 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
- Nara (Japan)
- Topic
- Photography -- Japan
- Photography -- 19th century
- Architecture, sculptures
- Religion
- Buddhas
- Architecture -- Japan
- Collector
- Rosin, Henry D., Dr.
- Rosin, Nancy
- See more items in
- Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan
- Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan / Series FSA A1999.35 A1: Photo album from the studio of Adolpho Farsari
- Extent
- 1 Photographic print (Album 1, page 37, image 24.8 x 20.8 cm.; on mount 33.5 x 26 cm)
- Date
- [1860 - ca. 1900]
- Container
- Box 1, Item R329
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A1999.35, Item FSA A1999.35 329
- Type
- Archival materials
- Photographs
- Photographic prints
- Photographs
- 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
- View of bronze Buddha statue in Nara.
- Photographer unidentified.
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1643210100175-1643210104386-1
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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