X-radiograph(s) of "Prince Shôtoku at Age Two (Shôtoku Taishi Nisaizô)"

Identification and Creation

Object Number: Straus.8882
Title: X-radiograph(s) of "Prince Shôtoku at Age Two (Shôtoku Taishi Nisaizô)"
Classification: Photographs
Work Type: photograph, x-radiograph
Date: July 13, 2016
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/355996

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Alan Burroughs Collection of X-Radiographs
Object Number: Straus.8882
Contact: am_straus@harvard.edu
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Description: X-radiograph Operator(s): Angela Chang

Duration of session: 2 hours

Total number of exposures: 3

Material Description: painted wood

Material thickness: various

Radiation source: Comet tube

CR plate type: Carestream Industrex Flex HR (white)

Exposure settings: 40kV 320mA 150seconds 195cm focal distance

Filtration used: none

Screens used: none

Capture notes: front, side, three-quarter views

Scanning notes: laser power high, 12-bit logarithmic data scale, PMT 10, 50 micron scan resolution

Image manipulation notes: Industrex 6 Edge filter as indicated

Angela Chang, Penley Knipe, and Rachel Saunders, Hābādo Daigaku Bijutsukan shozō Namubutsu Taishi zō (Prince Shōtoku at Age Two at the Harvard Art Museums), Hābādo Daigaku Bijutsukan zō Namubutsu Taishi zō kenkyū shiryōshū, ed. Abe Yasuro, Abe Mika, Seya Takayuki, and Seya Ai, Chūō Kōron Bijutsu Shuppan (Tokyo: Chūō Kōron Bijutsu Shuppan)