This image previously appeared in Terry Bennett's "History of Photography in China: Chinese Photographers 1844-1879", published by Bernard Quaritch in 2013, with the caption:
Fig. 6.16. Lai Fong (Afong Studio). ‘Japanese Moosmi 1873’. Another print of this image is also in the collection of the Wilson Centre for Photography with a printed caption label reading ‘No. 28. A Japanese Lady, wife of one of the principal Merchants in Japan.’ Author’s Collection.
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