A Royal Wedding?
[WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY.]
Javanese bride and bridegroom with members of the wedding party, likely royalty. Indonesia, late 1860s.
Albumen print, 26.3 x 21.7 cm, a little loss to one corner, ‘Bruidspaar Bantam’ on verso in pencil.
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Javanese bride and bridegroom with members of the wedding party, likely royalty.
A portrait of a ‘wedding couple’ in the Javanese city of Bantam, dressed in elaborate wedding outfits.
A portrait by Isidore van Kinsbergen dated circa 1865 of the son of the Regent of Bandung shares a likeness to the bridegroom here. The headdress, necklace and other garments are also strikingly similar, suggesting this photograph marks a royal wedding. Likely photographers are Isadore van Kinsbergen and Simon Wilhelm Camerik.