Felice Beato
[View from the foot of the hill leading to Satsuma's Palace]

ArtistBritish, born Italy, 1832–1909
CultureBritish
Titles
  • [View from the foot of the hill leading to Satsuma's Palace]
Date1867
PlaceTokyo, Japan
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 8 7/16 × 11 in. (21.4 × 28 cm)
Sheet: 8 7/16 × 11 in. (21.4 × 28 cm)
Mount: 12 9/16 × 17 9/16 in. (31.9 × 44.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by The Brown Foundation, Inc., The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2004.297
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 208
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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Felice Beato established himself as a military photographer embedded with English colonial forces in the Middle East, India, and China. By the time he arrived in Japan in the early 1860s, the country was newly accessible to foreigners and undergoing rapid political restructuring that would culminate with the Meiji Restoration in 1868. From his studio in Yokohama, Beato made pictures of scenic landscapes, city views, and portraits of Japanese in traditional costume, marketing his photographs in bound albums that played an important role in shaping Western conceptions of Japanese society and identity.


Provenance[Manfred Heiting, Malibu, California]; purchased by MFAH, 2004.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in pencil, recto, lower right corner of mount: "Satsuma's Palace. Yedo"
Marked in pencil, upper right corner of mount: "9x"
There is no evident signature.

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