Title
On back: “Chinese woman and girl”
Year/Period
around 1860s–70s
Region
Java, Surabaya
Dimension
Frame size: 22.4 x 18.8 x 3.5 cm,
Image size: 10.0 x 6.5 cm
Image size: 10.0 x 6.5 cm
Accession No.
2018-00136
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Mr and Mrs Lee Kip Lee
This studio portrait shows a seated nyonya and a girl wearing a necklace. The studio mark of J. B. Jasper is stamped on the back of the photograph. Studios were already established across the Strait Settlements and the Dutch East Indies by the 1840s and became increasingly prevalent in the 1850s. During the 1920s, Chinese-owned studios dominated the studio photography trade in Southeast Asia.
