Frank Nicholas Meyer collection of Chinese prints
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- NAA MS 253207 USNM Accession 49472
- Collector
- Meyer, Frank Nicholas
- Place
- Wutai Xian (China)
- East Asia
- Topic
- Architecture
- Provenance
- The prints were given to Frank Nicholas Meyer by the head priest of a temple at Mount Wutai. Meyer donated the collection to the Smithsonian in 1908 (USNM Accession 46472). The collection was transferred from the object collections of the Department of Anthropology to the National Anthropological Archives at an unknown date prior to 1984.
- Collector
- Meyer, Frank Nicholas
- Culture
- Chinese
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- Frank Nicholas Meyer collection of Chinese prints
- Bigraphical Note
- Frank Nicholas Meyer (1875-1918) was an agricultural explorer in China for the US Department of Agriculture Bureau of Plant Industry.
- Extent
- 5 Prints
- Date
- undated
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Identifier
- NAA.MS253207
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Prints
- Works of art
- Woodblock prints
- Citation
- Frank Nicholas Meyer collection of Chinese prints (MS 253207), National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Processing Information
- The items in this collection were originally cataloged individually by the NAA under their USNM catalog numbers, MS 253207, MS 253208, and MS 253209. In 2023, the collection was reprocessed and all items were incorporated into a single collection under MS 253207.
- Rights
- Contact the repository for terms of use.
- Genre/Form
- Works of art
- Woodblock prints
- Scope and Contents
- The collection consists of five (5) prints collected by Meyer in Shanxi, China. One print is a plan for a temple, and there are two sets of two prints of Chinese characters. Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
- Restrictions
- The collection is open for research. Access to the collection requires an appointment.
- Record ID
- ebl-1538037624381-1538037624383-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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