Title
An album by Felice Beato
Year/Period
1880s
Region
Burma
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 30.7 x 45.6 x 5.3 cm
Accession No.
2024-00696
Collection of
This is a large and very beautiful album, with 101 full page albumen prints. It includes most of the important pictures taken by Felice Beato of Burma in the late 1880s, with a strong focus on the people. Beato set up a successful photo studio in Mandalay in 1886, during which time he also took pictures of British military action during the insurgency that lasted the following decade. He proceeded to produce numerous images of Burma, including architecture, genre subjects and landscapes that not only sold as popular prints but were used to illustrate travel accounts. Beato remains one of the most important photographers of Asia of the 19th century.
