Classical statue of a garlanded male nude
Category
Photographs
Date
1860 - 1870
Materials
Card
Measurements
85 x 52.5 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520686.7
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 garlanded nude male figure. He is standing with his right leg placed adjacent to a truncated tree stump and his left leg partially flexed. His head is turned to the left where he is looking over his left shoulder and outstretched left arm. There is a cloth draped across his shoulders, the front of his upper chest and his left forearm. 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