Who created "Street Refreshment Stalls"?

Street Refreshment Stalls was created by Felice Beato in c. 1865.

When was "Street Refreshment Stalls" created?

This artwork was created c. 1865.

What medium is "Street Refreshment Stalls"?

Street Refreshment Stalls is albumen print with applied color.

Is "Street Refreshment Stalls" in the public domain?

Yes, Street Refreshment Stalls is in the public domain and available for free download under CC0 license.

Street Refreshment Stalls

Felice Beato

c. 1865

Medium

albumen print with applied color

Dimensions

image/sheet: 20.3 × 25.5 cm (8 × 10 1/16 in.)

Classification

Photograph

Department

CPH

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

Accession Number

2017.70.3

Art Historical Context

**Street Refreshment Stalls captured around 1865 by Felice Beato offers a vivid glimpse into everyday life in mid-19th-century Japan This albumen print with applied color depicts bustling street vendors serving refreshments, likely in the port city of Yokohama, a hub of early international trade after Japan ended its isolationist policies. Beato, a pioneering British-Italian photographer renowned for his documentation of Asia, arrived in Japan in 1863, becoming one of the first Western to record its rapidly changing society amid the Meiji Restoration. The medium—an albumen print, coated with ...

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...

Street Refreshment Stalls

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