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ID: 700008783
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008783
Record Type: Movable Work
Group of prints by Felice Beato (albumen prints; Felice Beato (British, born Italy, 1832 - 1909) (British Pho...; 1857 - 1885; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 2007.26)
Note: The collection covers the entire career of Felice Beato in Asia: from his photographs of India in 1858 to his Burmese photographs around 1889. The subjects include the aftermath of warfare, architecture, monuments, landscape and genre studies of typical indigenous inhabitants.
Titles:
Group of prints by Felice Beato (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)
Catalog Level: group
Work Types:
albumen prints [300127121] (preferred)
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, photographs, <photographs by form>, positives (photographs), photographic prints, <photographic prints by process>)
album (book) [300026690]
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), information artifacts, <information artifacts by physical form>, books, <books by internal form>)

Classifications:
photographs (preferred)

Creation Date: 1857 - 1885

Creator Display:
Felice Beato (British, born Italy, 1832 - 1909) (British Photographer) [preferred,JPGM]
Beato, Felice (British photographer, ca. 1830-after 1904, of Italian origin) [500002985]
Locations:
Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)
Repository Numbers: 2007.26
Credit Line: Partial gift from the Wilson Centre for Photography
Other: Creation: Lucknow [7001561] Uttar Pradesh (state), India (nation), Asia (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)
Display Materials: Various, see extensions
Dimensions: Various, see extensions
Cultures:
British (preferred)

General Subject:
history and legend (preferred)

Specific Subjects:
portraits [300015637]
.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>) (AAT)
landscapes (environments) [300008626]
.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
architecture (object genre) [300263552]
.....(Objects Facet, Object Genres (hierarchy name), object genres (object classifications)) (AAT)
Asia [1000004]
.....(World (facet)) (TGN)

Inscriptions: (Recto, mount) inscribed in blue ink, at lower center below image: "Colin Campbell Lord Clyde [overwritten on a pencil inscription, 'Lord Clyde']"
List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Movable Works
.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media
Sources and Contributors:
Group of prints by Felice Beato........ [VP,JPGM]
........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Subject: ....... [VP,JPGM]
Note:
English ..... [VP]
..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
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