Marguerite Agniel posing with her hands by her head and laying back raising her torso in the air, in a photographic studio.

Carter-Bailey Studio

Date:: 1929

Reference:: 540252i

Part of:: The Fallaize Collection.

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Collection contents

The Fallaize Collection.
- Marguerite Agniel.
  - Marguerite Agniel posing with her hands by her head and laying back raising her torso in the air, in a photographic studio.540252i

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced September 2022: Marguerite Agniel posing laying back raising her torso in the air wearing a revealing silver two-piece costume and matching turban, on a mat, in a photographic studio.

Description

Agniel is also seen, in the same costume, in 539793i-539795i

Publication/Creation

1929.

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Contributors

Lettering

Bears number: 34 Accompanying typewritten text describes the benefits of this exercise

Reference

Wellcome Collection 540252i

References note

Reproduced: M. Agniel, The art of the body, London, 1931, Plate XXVII ()

Creator/production credits

Photographer information taken from M. Agniel, op. cit., acknowledgments

Notes

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

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.