Three Graces, by Raphael
Category
Photographs
Date
1860 - 1870
Materials
Card
Measurements
85 x 52.5 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520686.25
Summary
An albumen print photograph of a painting, Raphael's 'Three Graces', in carte de visite format, mounted into a white stiff card page within an album. The window of the mount is portrait format and has curved corners. It is surrounded by a 5mm wide embossed margin. The picture shows 3 full length females standing upright, 2 are facing forward and 1 is facing backwards. The first female on the left is facing forward and is partially covered by material, in her left hand she is holding an object, her right hand is on the shoulder of the second (middle) female. The second female is nude and is facing backwards, she is holding an object in her right hand the third female is nude on the right of the picture. All females are wearing beads in there hair. 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