Korean priest

Visit to the Land of Morning Calm

portrait

Archive

Accession Nr.: A.4760.2.21.3.
Type: photograph
Artist/Maker:
Date of production:
ca. 1900
Place of production:
Acquisition: collection of Dezső Bozóky
Signed: A fénykép alatt: Bozóky Dezső kézírása: Koreai pap.
Materials/Techniques: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: height: 13 cm
width: 9.2 cm
The album containing Dezső Bozóky's travelphotos (second). Related item: A.4760.2. (album). Unknown photographer. Photograph purchased by Dezső Bozóky. A man in the uniform of a government official, the geumgwan jobok (“officials’ ceremonial attire with gold-coated coronet”). While the monarch introduced new uniforms after 1897, the officials’ attire seen in this picture continued to be used: it was worn at the great annual sacrifice presented to the emperor’s ancestors.