Title
Untitled
Year/Period
around 1870s
Region
Penang
Dimension
Frame size: 18.0 x 21.0 x 3.3 cm,
Image size: 6.2 x 10.2 cm
Image size: 6.2 x 10.2 cm
Accession No.
2018-00150
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Mr and Mrs Lee Kip Lee
This photograph shows four nyonyas seated before a balustrade.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.
