A child of the Orient – Antique Print
![A child of the Orient, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f3/f33cb48a0261-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures A child of the Orient in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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A child of the Orient
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A child of the Orient" is the title Frances Benjamin Johnston gave this photoprint, though its date is not recorded, so the exact moment it was made remains uncertain. Johnston, a Washington, D.C., photographer, worked from the 1890s into the early twentieth century and made many portraits in costume and posed settings. Titles like this one reflect the Orientalist taste of that period, when studio pictures often used dress and props to evoke distant lands and peoples. Viewers today may notice how the title frames its young sitter through a Western idea of the East, a convention worth reading with some caution.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,130 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-159486 |
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