[Couple under an umbrella]
- Title:
- [Couple under an umbrella]
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Landscape and the Environment
Asian Studies - Creator:
- Kimbei, Kusakabe
- Creation Date:
- 1870s-1890s
- ID Number:
- 86.140.119
- File Name:
- 86.140.119.jpg
- Work Type:
- Photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- albumen prints
hand coloring - Subject:
- Tourism, landscape, scenery, commercial landscape photography
Japan - Measurement:
- 38.7 x 31.1 (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- Full length studio portrait of two people in bulky robes and headscarves facing one another but looking at the camera, each with one hand on the handle of an open paper parasol. The robe of the person on the right has been hand painted in purple with a pink and red sash at the waist. The backdrop is a misty mountain scene with some large evergreen branches.
- Notes:
- Hand-colored albumen print.
A number of other prints by Kimbei are held in the Herbert F. Johnson Museum collection, part of large collection of Japanese photography. - Cite As:
- Kusakabe Kimbei (Japanese, 1841–1934), [Couple under an umbrella], 1870s–1890s. Albumen print with applied color, Image/sheet: 15 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. (38.7 x 31.1 cm). Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Clark Worswick, 86.140.119.
- Repository:
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
- Format:
- Image
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