Classical statue of a semi-nude female
Category
Photographs
Date
1860 - 1870
Materials
Card
Measurements
85 x 52.5 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520686.1
Summary
An albumen print photograph of a sculpture, in carte de visite format, mounted into a white stiff card page within an album. The window of the mount is in portrait format and has curved corners. It is surrounded by a 5mm wide embossed margin. The picture is of a classical statue of a semi-nude female. She is standing with a flexed right leg and arms raised up above her shoulders. She is partially covered from the waist down by a material drape. The statue stands on a plinth, carrying the wording 'Toilette grecque. A. BOTTINELLI'
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986