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| 1. |  | Felice Beato 1864-1867 (ca) Satsuma's envoys Albumen print, from wet collodion negative, hand-painted 183 x 167mm Royal Photographic Society |
| 2. |  | Felice Beato 1860s Samurai of the Satsuma clan, during the Boshin War period Source requested Public domain For an analysis of this photograph: Juliet Hacking (ed.), 2012, Photography: The Whole Story, (Prestel), pp. 138-139 |
| 3. |  | Felice Beato n.d. Samurai Albumen print, tinted 19 x 24.5 cm Old Japan Ref: BEA-SAM-01 |
| 4. |  | Felice Beato 1868 (ca) Portrait d'un samourai, Japon Albumen print (Tirage albuminé rehaussé) 27 x 20 cm Photo Verdeau |
| 5. |  | Felice Beato 1870 (ca) Buddhist Priest Albumen print 26.1 x 19.8 cm Bachmann Eckenstein Art & Antiques |
| 6. |  | Felice Beato 1868 (ca) Le voyageur, Japon Albumen print (Tirage albuminé rehaussé) 26 x 20 cm Photo Verdeau |
| 7. |  | Felice Beato 1870 Japanese Beauties Albumen print, hand-tinted 8 x 6 ins 205 x 150 mm Antiq-Photo Courtesy of Anthony Davis - Antiq-photo / Rainbow creations (www.19cPhoto.com - 3jc370) |
| 8. |  | Felice Beato Studio 1870 (ca) Geisha Albumen print, tinted 253 x 205mm Old Japan Courtesy of Terry Bennett (Old Japan - www.old-japan.co.uk - EB-0056) |
| 9. |  | Felice Beato Studio 1870 (ca) Woman, Child & Servant Albumen print, tinted 265 x 210mm Old Japan Courtesy of Terry Bennett (Old Japan - www.old-japan.co.uk - EB-0054) |
| 10. |  | Felice Beato 1868-1870 A group of seven men with straw raincoats Albumen print, hand-coloured 22 x 17 cm Dennis George Crow Courtesy of Dennis George Crow (www.dennisgeorgecrow.com) A rectangular photograph that has been matted with rounded corners. |
| 11. |  | Felice Beato 1870 (ca) Coolies, Way-side Refreshments [Japan] Albumen print 265 x 205 mm 10 3/8 x 8 1/8 in Antiq-Photo Courtesy of Anthony Davis - Antiq-photo / Rainbow creations (www.19cPhoto.com - 3jc157) |
| 12. |  | Felice Beato 1868 Views of Japan; Japanese shop Albumen print, hand-tinted Victoria and Albert Museum Museum number: 341-1918, Given by Mrs James Wheatley |
| 13. |  | Felice Beato 1860s Curio shop Albumen print, hand-coloured 26.6 x 27.7 cm Ken & Jenny Jacobson |
| 14. |  | Felice Beato 1871 (ca) Kago & Bearers mode of travelling before 1871 Albumen print, hand-tinted 195 x 250 mm Antiq-Photo Courtesy of Anthony Davis - Antiq-photo / Rainbow creations (www.19cPhoto.com - 3jc104) |
| 15. |  | Felice Beato 1880 (ca) Sedan-chair, Kago Albumen print, hand-tinted 21 x 27.3 cm Bachmann Eckenstein Art & Antiques |
| 16. |  | Felice Beato 1860s Le Sommeil - Sleeping Beauties Albumen print, hand-coloured 8.5 x 12 in OMC Gallery for Contemporary Art Photo Poche, Felice Beato and the school of Yokohama Centre Nationale de la Photographie, Paris 1994, Plate 42. |
| 17. |  | Felice Beato 1869 (published) A Touch of Paint Book illustration Google Books R. Mounteney Jephson and Edward Pennell Elmhirst, 9th Regiment, Our Life in Japan. With illustrations from Photographs by Lord Walter Kerr, Signor Beato, and Native Japanese drawings, (London: Chapman and Hall, 1869), p.403 |
| 18. |  | Felice Beato 1866 View of Nagasaki Harbour Albumen print 25.1 x 30.9 cm Bachmann Eckenstein Art & Antiques |
| 19. |  | Felice Beato 1868-1875 A view of Hakone Albumen print, hand-coloured 28 x 21 cm Dennis George Crow Courtesy of Dennis George Crow (www.dennisgeorgecrow.com) This photograph was taken by Beato but printed by Von Stillfried. The photograph is rectangular but is matted with rounded corners. |
| 20. |  | Felice Beato 1868-1875 A view of Kanasawa Albumen print, hand-coloured 23 x 18 cm Dennis George Crow Courtesy of Dennis George Crow (www.dennisgeorgecrow.com) This photograph was taken by Beato but printed by Von Stillfried. The photograph is rectangular but is matted with rounded corners. |
| 21. |  | Felice Beato 1860s Main Street, Kanagawa Albumen print 20.6 x 28.8 cm Ken & Jenny Jacobson |
| 22. |  | Felice Beato Studio 1867-1868 Atango-Yama at Yedo (Tokyo) Albumen print 230 x 275mm Old Japan Courtesy of Terry Bennett (Old Japan - www.old-japan.co.uk - 1015119) |
| 23. |  | Felice Beato Studio 1867-1868 View along the Tokaido Albumen print 222 x 268mm Old Japan Courtesy of Terry Bennett (Old Japan - www.old-japan.co.uk - 1015120) |
| 24. |  | Felice Beato 1880 (ca) Stone Buddha Albumen print 28.1 x 21.9 cm Bachmann Eckenstein Art & Antiques |
| 25. |  | Felice Beato 1864 Tsurugaoka-Hachiman Shrine at Kamakura Albumen print 22.9 x 28.7 Bachmann Eckenstein Art & Antiques |
| 26. |  | Felice Beato 1864, September The captured Choshu Gun Battery at Shimonoseki with the Royal Navy landing party Carte de visite Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics During the Shimonoseki War of 1864 fleets from the United States, Britain, France and the Netherlands compelled the Choshu domain in Japan (now Yamaguchi Prefecture) to allow free passage through the Shimonoseki Channel. This photograph is based on a wet collodion glass negative and Besto was able to get the large military group to pose for him showing that by this point hostilities had ceased or there was a significant lull in activity. |
| 27. |  | Felice Beato 1865-1868 Execution of the Servant Sokichi Albumen print, hand-coloured 28,9 x 23 cm Bassenge Photography Auctions Courtesy of Bassenge, Berlin (Photography, Sale: 90, Lot: 4020, Dec 5, 2007) In the early Meiji period the 25 year-old servant Sokichi was executed by crucifixion for the murder of the son of his employer, a store-owner, during the course of a robbery. He was affixed to a stake with two cross-pieces by tying. Literature: William A. Ewing. Faszination Körper. Meisterfotografien der menschlichen Gestalt (Leipzig, 1998) p. 251. William A. Ewing The body: photographs of the human form (Chronicle Books, 1994) p. 250. ISBN 0811807622. |
| 28. |  | Felice Beato 1868 (ca) The Executioner Albumen print, with hand-coloring 7 5/8 x 6 1/4 in (19.3675 x 15.875 cm) (image) Smith College Museum of Art Purchased with the Hillyer-Tryon-Mather Fund, with funds given in memory of Nancy Newhall (Nancy Parker, class of 1930) and in honor of Beaumont Newhall, and with funds given in honor of Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy, SC 1982:38-2 (49) THE EXECUTIONER. DECAPITATION by means of a sword is the most common form of capital punishment in Japan. The criminal is made to kneel on a little mat placed in front of a small rectangular pit, about 2 or 3 feet deep, dug in the ground. He is usually blindfolded, and is made to stretch his head, with his neck uncovered, over the pit. On the signal being given, the executioner whisks off the wretched man's head at one blow. à The view represents the execution ground, about a couple of miles from Yokohama, where the murderer of Major Baldwin and Lieut. Bird, the notorious Shimidzu Seiji was executed in December 1864. The executioner is a well known old practitioner, who, by his own account, has in a year when business is brisk, a very tolerable income. He receives some 7 ichiboos (about $2.30) per head, and has taken off as many as 350 heads in a twelvemonth. His office, however, is a despised one. |
| 29. |  | Felice Beato 1869 (published) Executioner and criminal Book illustration Google Books R. Mounteney Jephson and Edward Pennell Elmhirst, 9th Regiment, Our Life in Japan. With illustrations from Photographs by Lord Walter Kerr, Signor Beato, and Native Japanese drawings, (London: Chapman and Hall, 1869), p.30 |
| 30. |  | Felice Beato 1868 (ca) Execution Albumen print, with hand-coloring 9 1/4 x 10 7/8 in (23.495 x 27.6225 cm) (image) Smith College Museum of Art Purchased with the Hillyer-Tryon-Mather Fund, with funds given in memory of Nancy Newhall (Nancy Parker, class of 1930) and in honor of Beaumont Newhall, and with funds given in honor of Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy, SC 1982:38-2 (50) EXECUTION. THERE are several forms of Capital punishment in Japan. The most lenient of these is simple decapitation; the next in order of severity is decapitation with the disgraceful exposure of the head after death; then comes crucifixion, the punishment awarded to those guilty of such crimes as come under the head of parricide; and finally, the burning alive of incendiaries. Two of these punishments, crucifixion and the exposure of the head, are illustrated in the picture. The victim to be crucified is tied hand and foot to a stout pillar with two horizontal bars across it, and transfixed with spears by persons belonging to the Eta or pariah class, a group of whom are seen sitting in the hut on the right of the picture, watching the remains which it will be their next duty to inter. The Japanese criminal usually meets his fate, however cruel it may be, with calm fortitude. He kneels with unmoved features before a hole filled with saw-dust and destined to receive his head; he neither flinches nor quails before the sword of the executioner, to whom he often himself gives the signal to strike. Rarely does the headsman, unless he be a raw novice, need to strike a second blow. The keen blade falls true to its mark, and in the twinkling of an eye the head is separated from the body. When persons belonging to the military class are sentenced to die, they may, except in cases of great atrocity, claim the privilege of performing the "hara-kiri" or suicide by disemboweling. In such cases, the self-inflicted stab not being mortal, a friend or relation performs the office of headsman. Often, however, the criminal prefers to finish the deed which he has began, by cutting his own throat. The lax and arbitrary nature of Japanese legal procedure, renders it difficult to give an accurate account of the crimes subject to the penalty of death. |
| 31. |  | Felice Beato 1869 (published) Head of Matsudaira, one of the Kamakura Assassins Book illustration Google Books R. Mounteney Jephson and Edward Pennell Elmhirst, 9th Regiment, Our Life in Japan. With illustrations from Photographs by Lord Walter Kerr, Signor Beato, and Native Japanese drawings, (London: Chapman and Hall, 1869), p.32 |
| 32. |  | Felice Beato 1868 Our Chief Artist Albumen print, hand-coloured 8 11/16 x 6 11/16 ins J. Paul Getty Museum Partial gift from the Wilson Centre for Photography, 2007.26.182 |
| 33. |  | Felice Beato 1863 (or later) My Artists Carte de visite Private collection This carte de visite is of immense significance as it shows the Japanese colourists who worked for Felice Beato. There is a printed paper label pasted on the back - "My Artists." |
| 34. |  | Felice Beato 1863 (or later) My Artists Carte de visite, back Private collection This carte de visite is of immense significance as it shows the Japanese colourists who worked for Felice Beato. There is a printed paper label pasted on the back - "My Artists." |