Kusakabe Kimbei
Washing and Starching Clothes

CultureJapanese
Titles
  • Washing and Starching Clothes
Datec. 1880
Place depictedJapan
MediumAlbumen silver print with applied color
DimensionsImage/Sheet: 8 × 10 3/8 in. (20.3 × 26.4 cm)
Mount: 10 7/16 × 12 7/8 in. (26.5 × 32.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Mundy Companies
Object number89.197
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., Malvern, Pennsylvania]; purchased by MFAH, 1989.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
printed bottom right edge on image: 31 WASHING & STARCHING CLOTHES

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