[Japanese Woman in Carriage]
1870s
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color
Dimensions
20.1 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.505.1 (40b)
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Suzuki Shin'ichi · 1835–1919
Suzuki Shin'ichi (1835–1919) was a Japanese photographer who worked during a period of extraordinary transformation in both Japanese society and the history of the photographic medium. Active during the Meiji era, when Japan was engaged in a sweeping process of modernization and opening to the world, Suzuki belonged to the generation of early Japanese photographers who helped define what photograp...