A nude female, standing in water
Category
Photographs
Date
1860 - 1870
Materials
Card
Measurements
86 x 53 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520686.47
Summary
An albumen print photograph of a painting, 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. A nude female, standing in water up to her knees with her hands by her head.Her thighs are draped in flowing fabrics. . 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