Title
Untitled
Year/Period
around 1860s
Region
Java
Dimension
Frame size: 20.8 x 17.1 x 3.4 cm,
Image size: 8.5 x 4.5 cm
Image size: 8.5 x 4.5 cm
Accession No.
2018-00145
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Mr and Mrs Lee Kip Lee
This photograph shows a young boy holding onto the table beside him. 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.