Title
Signed: "G. A. Mögle/1905 Haag"
Year/Period
1905
Region
Netherlands, The Hague
Material
Dimension
Object size: 59.2 x 49 cm,
Image size: 39.5 x 29.5 cm
Image size: 39.5 x 29.5 cm
Accession No.
2013-00972
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Mr and Mrs Lee Kip Lee
This photograph features a gentleman in Western suit. It was taken at Gustave Mogle’s studio, at the Hague in Holland, but was acquired in Java. 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.
