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Title

Untitled

Year/Period

Early 20th century

Region

Java

Material

Paper, wood, glass

Dimension

Frame size: 91.3 x 76.5 x 6 cm,
Image size: 73.5 x 58.5 cm

Accession No.

2013-00993

Collection of

Peranakan Museum

Credit Line

Gift of Mr and Mrs Lee Kip Lee

This framed studio photograph features a seated nyonya in Chinese dress and baba in Western suit, at the bottom of the stairs of a grand interior. The painted backdrop of an interior was a Victorian portraiture conventions of the 1860s.This photo is part of a large group of framed photographs which provides important visual documentation of the fashion, studio photography and lifestyle of Peranakans of the Straits Settlements and Indonesia in the late 19th to mid 20th centuries. Studio photography possibly reached Singapore and the region in the mid 1800s, and Peranakans were among the earliest clients.