Portrait of the Empress Shōken
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- FSA A2009.02 05b
- Creator
- Suzuki, Shin'ichi, I, 1835-1918 (Photographer)
- Maruki Riyō, Photographer, 1854-1923
- Names
- Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 1884-1980
- Shōken, Empress, consort of Meiji, Emperor of Japan, 1850-1914
- Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930
- Collection Collector
- Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 1884-1980
- Collection Creator
- McIntosh, Burr, 1862-1942
- Place
- Tokyo (Japan)
- Japan
- Topic
- Diplomacy
- Travel
- Creator
- Suzuki, Shin'ichi, I, 1835-1918 (Photographer)
- Maruki Riyō, Photographer, 1854-1923
- See more items in
- The Alice Roosevelt Longworth Collection of Photographs from the 1905 Taft Mission to Asia
- Biographical / Historical
- Alice Roosevelt visited Tokyo from late June 1905 as a member of the William H. Taft Mission to Asia.
- Extent
- 1 Gelatin silver print (mounted on board in elaborately carved wooden frame, image: 27.5 x 20.5 cm.; frame: 66 x 43 cm.)
- Date
- 1889
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A2009.02, Item FSA A2009.02 05b
- Type
- Archival materials
- Gelatin silver prints
- Photographic prints
- Portraits
- Photographs
- Collection Citation
- The Alice Roosevelt Longworth Collection of Photographs from the 1905 Taft Mission to Asia, FSA A2009.02. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
- Genre/Form
- Photographic prints
- Portraits
- Photographs -- 1900-1910
- Scope and Contents
- A photograph received by Alice Roosevelt in July 1905 at an Imperial reception in Tokyo for members of the Taft Mission to Asia. The photograph is personally signed by the Empress (Haruko). Photograph was taken by Suzuki Shin'ichi (1835-1918) and printed by Maruki Riyō (1854-1923).
- 美子 昭憲皇后
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1585222321438-1585222321490-1
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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