Japanese Girls Writing, Reading, and Sewing, from a Photograph Album

Kusakabe Kimbei, Japanese, 1841 - 1934

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about 1890

Hand-tinted albumen print

Sheet: 7 7/8 × 10 1/4 in. (20 × 26 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Claire and Richard P. Morse 1953 Fund

2009.61.36

Geography

Place Made: Japan, East Asia, Asia

Period

19th century

Object Name

Photograph

Research Area

Photograph

Not on view

Inscriptions

118. JAPANESE GIRLS WRITING, READING, AND SEWNIG.[sic]

Course History

ARTH 91/92, Honors I/II, Allen Hockley, Winter 2019

Provenance

Boston Book Company, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts; sold to present collection 2009.

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