"Shariki," or Cart-Pushing Coolies
ca. 1860
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color
Dimensions
Image: 20.8 x 25.4 cm (8 3/16 x 10 in.) Mount: 32.4 x 51.1 cm (12 3/4 x 20 1/8 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Isaac Lagnado, in honor of Mary Stack, 2009
Accession Number
2009.538.2
Tags
About the Artist
Felice Beato
Felice Beato (c. 1832–1909), an Italian-born photographer who became a British subject through his family's residence on the British protectorate island of Corfu, emerged as one of the pioneering figures in war and travel photography. Born in Venice or Corfu to a Venetian noble family with roots in Corfu, Beato's early life remains somewhat obscure, but he acquired his first photographic lens in P...