A young woman posing naked with her hands on her head, standing on a Persian rug in front of a sceneographic backdrop.

Date:: [approximately 1900]

Reference:: 535431i

Part of:: The Fallaize Collection.

Pictures

Collection contents

The Fallaize Collection.
- Egyptian portraits.
  - A young woman posing naked with her hands on her head, standing on a Persian rug in front of a sceneographic backdrop.535431i

About this work

Description

The background looks like a classical stage-set, the negative is cracked across the lower half, there appears to be a sort of stand behind the woman

Publication/Creation

[approximately 1900]

Physical description

1 photograph : black and white photoprint

Contributors

Fallaize, Edwin Nichol, 1877-1957former owner

Lettering

Lettering in pencil on the verso: Sec_es_ Bears number: No.1

Notes

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

Reference

Wellcome Collection 535431i

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.