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261. Photo 1224/4(39)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/4(39)
Title:
Batavian Dancing Girl. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
Full-length studio group portrait of a woman in costume, with musicians seated around her. This particular group played wayang topeng, one of the traditional varieties of Javanese theatre, in which the players performed roles while wearing topeng or masks made out of wood. Such groups usually d...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

262. Photo 1224/6(43)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/6(43)
Title:
Geyshers [Geishas]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Numbered 614 in the negative. Studio portrait of two geishas, one kneeling playing a stringed instrument, the other dancing, with a fan held aloft in her right hand. The two are posed in front of backdrop painted with a traditional scene.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

263. Photo 1224/6(46)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/6(46)
Title:
Singing girls [Japan]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Numbered 773 in the negative. Studio portrait of a young Japanese woman seated on a tatami mat playing a stringed instrument.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

264. Photo 1224/6(47)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/6(47)
Title:
Singing girls [Japan]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Numbered 776 in the negative. Studio portrait of two Japanese women, posed with musical instruments (a kind of zither and a guitar-like instrument).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

265. Photo 1224/6(48)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/6(48)
Title:
Singing girls [Japan]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Inscribed in Japanese and numbered 483 in the negative. Studio portrait of a Japanese woman, seated with a stringed instrument (a kind of zither) resting on the floor in front of her.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

266. Photo 1224/6(50)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/6(50)
Title:
[Japanese] Street singer. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Full-length portrait of a female street singer, posed with a guitar-like instrument (shamisen).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

267. Photo 1295(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1295(19)
Title:
Musicians, Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon, Burma. Photographer: Stereo Travel Company (New York)
Scope & Content:
Stereoscopic view, a close view of a group of musicians on the terrace of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Image copyrighted 1908, by the Stereo Travel Company.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1908
Extent:
1 item

268. Photo 1297(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1297(19)
Title:
Newly married couple dining together for the first time, Canton, China. Photographer: Keystone View Company
Scope & Content:
Stereoscopic view, numbered '21' on upper centre of mount. Showing married couple and attendant musicians, all in traditional dress.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1905
Extent:
1 item

269. W2126(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
W2126(9)
Title:
Procession of a Hindoo woman to the funeral pile of her husband. Plate 9 from 'Travels in India, during the years 1780, 1781, 1782, & 1783,' published by J. Edwards, Pall Mall, London, 1793. Artist(s): Skelton, William (1763-1848), after Hodges, William (1744-1797)
Scope & Content:
Procession of a Hindoo woman to the funeral pile of her husband. Plate 9 from 'Travels in India, during the years 1780, 1781, 1782, & 1783,' published by J. Edwards, Pall Mall, London, 1793.. Artist(s): Skelton, William (1763-1848), after Hodges, William (1744-1797)
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1793
Extent:
1 Item

270. WD1749

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1749
Title:
The Mhang, or village musician, beating a drum. March 1872. Artist(s): Kipling, John Lockwood (1837-1911)
Scope & Content:
The’ Mhang,’ or village musician, beating a drum. March 1872. Inscribed on front in water-colour: ‘J.L.K. Khngaum. March 1872;’ on back in pencil: ‘No 33 The 'Mhang'.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 Item

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