Classical statue of a female nude
Category
Photographs
Date
1860 - 1870
Materials
Card
Measurements
85 x 52.5 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520686.5
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 nude female figure set on a plinth within an alcove. On the right hand side of the alcove is vertical strip of decorative plaster work. The figure is standing with her arms raised up above her head. She has a piece of cloth draped over her right shouder passing around her back to the left side of her waist and extending to cover her pubic area. 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