Sujet

Japanese girl painting her lips, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson.

Légende

Japanese girl painting her lips, 1864. Engraving of a sketch '...by Mr. C. Wirgman, our special artist...[of] a young girl painting her face after the usual daily bath. It is only the young and pretty, in Japan, who ever think it worth while to practice these arts of adornment...The girl seen in our engraving takes extraordinary pains to improve the charms with which Nature has endowed her. She has first whitewashed her face and neck, then she tints her cheeks with lake, and paints her lips brilliantly with a mixture of crimson and gold, using a fine hair brush for the purpose. The effect is rather displeasing to the European eye, but if the Japanese admire it, we can only say it is a matter of taste. Notwithstanding this strange freak of fashion, Japanese women are said to be very attractive'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A16_138

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

24,9Mo (1,7Mo) / 21,7cm x 28,8cm / 2564 x 3401 (300dpi)

Mots clés

female women woman people face interior beauty arts country body bodies art costume clothes British color beautiful Japan Japanese screen dress hair traditional costume kimono kneeling makeup location century Britain cosmetics make-up inside brush mirror newspapers press clothing print hairstyle taste concept lipstick APPAREL B&W posture hairdo engraved engraving hairdressing Colour looking glass 19th century Indoors black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News Shimada traditional dress ILN Charles Wirgman newspaper Mason Jackson Jackson Mason 19th-century eurocentric clothing & dress fashion & clothing M. Jackson Jackson M. Wirgman Charles