![Felice Beato, [Photographic Copy of a Drawing of the Head on a Table of a Beheaded Man by Charles Wirgman]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/db852d7c-6f8e-4110-985a-8431867db3b9/full/!1400,/0/default.jpg)
[Photographic Copy of a Drawing of the Head on a Table of a Beheaded Man by Charles Wirgman]
December 1864
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Dimensions
- 19.8 × 25.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-203612
Photographic reproduction of a drawing by Charles Wirgman, depicting a group of people standing in front of a display of the severed head of Shimizu Seiji, who was convicted of murdering two British officers. Another man stands before the group while holding up a written sign.
Provenance
Partial gift from the Wilson Centre for Photography
Registry history
- December 1864 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs
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