MS 7339 Watercolor drawings showing Korean dress
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: USNM Accession 22822

USNM Catalog 131315
label: Variant Title
content: Paintings showing Korean costumes
name: label: Collector
content: Rockhill, William Woodville, 1854-1914
place: label: Place
content: Korea
label: Place
content: East Asia
creator: label: Collector
content: Rockhill, William Woodville, 1854-1914
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content: MS 7339 Watercolor drawings showing Korean dress
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: William Woodville Rockhill (1854-1914) was an American diplomat and a leading scholar in Chinese and Tibetan studies.  From December 1886 to April 1887 he served as Chargé de Affaires in Korea.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 18 Drawings (visual works) (watercolor on mulberry paper, 11.75 x 14 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1886-1887
container: label: Container
content: Box 7339
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Gift to the Smithsonian by William Woodville Rockhill, 1890. Transferred from the object collections of the Department of Anthropology to the National Anthropological Archives by Chang-su Houchins, June 1983.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS7339
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Drawings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Watercolor drawings
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Data furnished by Chang-su Houchins, of the Department of Anthropology. She consulted U. S. Hong and C. H. Yi (ed.), Kugŏ haksŭp tobo (A pictorial glossary of Korean terms), 1955; Man-hŭl Kim (ed.), Han'guk minsok kam (Pictorial illustrations of Korean folklore materials, 1974; and Seoul National Museum, Han'guk minye misul (Korean folk art), 1975.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Watercolor drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of eighteen (18) watercolor drawings of men and women in traditional dress.  The drawings were collected by Rockhill in Korea circa 1887.

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