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[Photographic Copy of a Drawing of the Head on a Table of a Beheaded Man by Charles Wirgman]
Felice BeatoDecember 1864
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Photographic reproduction of a drawing by Charles Wirgman, depicting a group of people standing in front of a display of the severed head of Shimizu Seiji, who was convicted of murdering two British officers. Another man stands before the group while holding up a written sign.
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- Title: [Photographic Copy of a Drawing of the Head on a Table of a Beheaded Man by Charles Wirgman]
- Creator: Felice Beato
- Date Created: December 1864
- Location Created: Yokohama, Japan
- Physical Dimensions: 19.8 × 25.7 cm (7 13/16 × 10 1/8 in.)
- Type: Print
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Albumen silver print
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 2007.26.207.17
- Culture: English
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Partial gift from the Wilson Centre for Photography
- Creator Display Name: Felice Beato (English, born Italy, 1832 - 1909)
- Classification: Photographs (Visual Works)
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