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Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress Dowager of China

Of: Empress Dowager Cixi (Manchu–Chinese, 1835–1908)
Photographer: Xunling (c. 1880 – 1943)
Chinese
Qing dynasty
early 20th century

Medium/Technique Photograph, hand-colored gelatin silver print
Dimensions Image: 23.1 x 17.2 cm (9 1/8 x 6 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Sarah Buchan Jewell
Accession Number1991.134
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Photography
ClassificationsPhotographs

Catalogue Raisonné Ellen Takata
ProvenanceEdwin Conger, first U.S. Ambassador to Imperial China and his wife Sarah Conger; by descent to their granddaughter Sarah Buchan Jewell (Mrs T. Edson Jewell), Boston; 1991, gift of Sarah Buchan Jewell to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 27, 1991)