An Algerian woman, wearing a striped dress fastened with brooches, holding a veil up above her head, against a studio backdrop of the desert.

Date:
[approximately 1900]
Reference:
538973i
Part of:
The Fallaize Collection.
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Also known as

Previous title, replaced June 2022: An Arab woman, wearing a striped dress fastened with brooches, holding a veil up above her head, against a studio backdrop of the desert. Photograph, ca.1900.

Publication/Creation

[approximately 1900]

Physical description

1 photograph : black and white photoprint

Notes

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

Reference

Wellcome Collection 538973i

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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