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[Photographic Copy of a Drawing of an Execution by Charles Wirgman]
Creator
Felice BeatoPhotographer · 1832–1909
All works by this person →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
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- after November 1864
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- English
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- dcd017a3-a287-4c8c-9f7a-dbbf6082f79c
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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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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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