[Photographic Copy of a Drawing of an Execution by Charles Wirgman]

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[Photographic Copy of a Drawing of an Execution by Charles Wirgman]

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Felice Beato

Photographer · 1832–1909

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Felice Beato was the first photographer to devote himself entirely to photographing in Asia and the Near East. He photographed in Japan, India, Athens, Constantinople, the Crimea, and Palestine. He settled in Yokohama and from 1863 to 1877 made hundreds of ethnographic portraits and genre scenes in Japan. He eventually opened a furniture and curio business in Burma. Beato's photographic career was

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Photographic reproduction of a drawing by Charles Wirgman, depicting a public execution by beheading, witnessed by a large number of men dressed in traditional garments and military uniform. Also visible in the foreground are three children and a woman, all dressed in traditional garments.

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https://data.getty.edu/museum/collection/person/76341c09-b1ac-4032-85c9-e2cda5493efc
Artist/Maker
Felice Beato
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https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/109BYM
Date
after November 1864
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
English
Object Type
Print

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A public beheading in Japan, November 1864, captured first by a witness sketching in real time, then photographed to preserve it. Felice Beato reproduced Charles Wirgman's drawing as an albumen silver print, showing long lines of soldiers and officials in traditional garments forming a corridor toward a central clearing, while a woman and three children in kimono stand among the crowd in the foreground. This image is one of the only firsthand Western visual records of a samurai-era execution, made at the moment Japan was being pulled open to the outside world.

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Object ID
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Object Type
Print
  • Getty Museum field “Object Type” · copied as is
Creator
Felice Beato
  • Getty Museum field “Artist/Maker” · copied as is
Culture
English
  • Getty Museum field “Culture” · copied as is
Medium
Albumen silver print
  • Getty Museum field “Medium” · copied as is
Department
Photographs
  • Getty Museum field “Department” · derived by LinkedCulture from the museum field · Getty's classification category is stored as department.
Credit Line
Partial gift from the Wilson Centre for Photography
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Date
after November 1864
  • Getty Museum field “Date” · copied as is
Begin Year
1864
  • Getty Museum field “produced_by.timespan.begin_of_the_begin” · derived by LinkedCulture from the museum field
End Year
1909
  • Getty Museum field “produced_by.timespan.end_of_the_end” · derived by LinkedCulture from the museum field

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