Title(s)

The "geisha" (singing girl)

Object type

• photomechanical print

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-586-2

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘This photograph (...) in this volume.’

Artist

• anonymous
• Kazumasa Ogawa

Place

Japan

Dating

c. 1886 - in or before 1896

Material

• crepe paper

Technique

collotype

Measurements

height 180 mm × width 129 mm

What

• adult woman
• dress, gown
• fan

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Illustrations of Japanese life (RP-F-2001-7-586)