Unknown, Well Educated Man
Gift of Virginia Heckert in memory of James N. Wood · Digital image courtesy of Getty's Open Content ProgramView original →
Unknown

Well Educated Man

May 26, 1899

Current Collection

J. Paul Getty Museum

Los Angeles, United States

Medium
Ambrotype
Dimensions
10.3 × 7.8 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-294286

A Japanese man wearing a suit, seated on a carved stool, one arm resting on a delicate end table. The ambrotype is housed in a hand-carved wooden box, made to imitate the leather-bound, velvet-lined cases used for European ambrotypes.

Provenance

Gift of Virginia Heckert in memory of James N. Wood

Registry history

  • May 26, 1899 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs

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