Albumen photograph on mount
16 in x 20 in including mat; image 6 3/4 in x 9 in / 40.6 x 50.8 cm; image 17.1 x 22.9 cm
Provenance: John Dominis Holt, Honolulu, HI
This albumen photograph by Henry L. Chase shows Hawaiian women in Nuʻuanu Stream on Oʻahu in 1880. The image belongs to the late nineteenth-century photographic record of Hawaiʻi, when visiting and resident photographers documented island landscapes, communities, and daily life. Its mounted presentation preserves the photograph within a larger collecting format typical of the period.
The composition is quiet and direct, with the figures placed in shallow water against the dense vegetation of the stream bank. Chase’s albumen process gives the image its soft tonal range and warm sepia surface, characteristic of photographic work from this period. The John Dominis Holt provenance connects the photograph to an established Honolulu collecting context.
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Albumen photograph on mount
16 in x 20 in including mat; image 6 3/4 in x 9 in / 40.6 x 50.8 cm; image 17.1 x 22.9 cm
Provenance: John Dominis Holt, Honolulu, HI
This albumen photograph by Henry L. Chase shows Hawaiian women in Nuʻuanu Stream on Oʻahu in 1880. The image belongs to the late nineteenth-century photographic record of Hawaiʻi, when visiting and resident photographers documented island landscapes, communities, and daily life. Its mounted presentation preserves the photograph within a larger collecting format typical of the period.
The composition is quiet and direct, with the figures placed in shallow water against the dense vegetation of the stream bank. Chase’s albumen process gives the image its soft tonal range and warm sepia surface, characteristic of photographic work from this period. The John Dominis Holt provenance connects the photograph to an established Honolulu collecting context.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
