Untitled

Title

Untitled

Year/Period

Early 20th century

Region

Singapore

Material

Gelatin silver print, Paper

Technique

Paper, wood, glass

Dimension

Object size: 34 x 43 cm,
Image size: 24.4 x 29.8 cm

Accession No.

2013-00985

Collection of

Peranakan Museum

Credit Line

Gift of Mr and Mrs Lee Kip Lee

This studio photograph features a Peranakan Chinese family, with the matriarch seated in the center. It was taken at the Tien Seng photographic studio in Singapore. 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.