Classical statue of a nude male
Category
Photographs
Date
1860 - 1870
Materials
Card
Measurements
85 x 52.5 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520686.4
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. It is surrounded by a 5mm wide embossed margin. The picture is of a classical statue of a male nude. The statue is seen in profile. The right leg is slightly flexed. The figure is looking slighly upwards and has his arms extended with the plams upwards. 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