Portrait of a bearded Egyptian man, c.1880.
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1890
Materials
Paper
Measurements
92 x 53 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520691.23
Summary
An albumen print photograph depicting a three-quarter length portrait of a bearded man. He is wearing a turban and a long white robe over a striped shirt. The print is mounted directly onto the page in the album. This portrait is one of a number collected into a section of the album devoted to Egypt.
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