A young woman, posing holding a glass of champagne aloft in a toast, wearing an elaborately frogged satin costume with a plumed hat, in a photographic studio.

Date:
[between 1899-1908]
Reference:
539890i
Part of:
The Fallaize Collection.
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About this work

Description

She looks like a performer in a pantomime, perhaps Buttons in Cinderella

Publication/Creation

London ([22 Bedford Street Strand]) : Hana Studios Ltd, [between 1899-1908]

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint ; image 18.2 x 13.5 cm

Lettering

Lettering pencilled on the verso: American The photographer information is in a studio stamp, embossed in the lower right-hand corner

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 539890i

Ownership note

Originally collected by British anthropologist Edwin Nichol Fallaize (1877-1957). Purchased by Capt. L.W.G. Malcolm in 1934, on behalf of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, for the price of £25. From a letter in the Wellcome archives dated 16th December 1934.

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