Classical statue of reclining female nude.
Category
Photographs
Date
1860 - 1870
Materials
Card
Measurements
52.5 x 85 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520686.10
Summary
An albumen print photograph of a sculpture, in carte de visite format, mounted in a white stiff card page within an album. The window of the mount is portrait format and has curved corners. The picture is in portrait format. It is surrounded by a 5mm wide embossed margin. The picture is of a classical statue of reclining female nude The figure has tresses of hair hanging to her shoulders. She is reclining on a mattress. She is lying on her right side, leaning of her elbow, with her right leg slighly bent under her left leg. Her left arm is resting across her thighs. She is looking downwards. Recto nil Verso nil
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.