A full length pose of two males and a female.
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1890
Materials
Paper
Measurements
90 x 51 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520691.24
Summary
An albumen print photograph depicting full length portraits of two males, both stood up with one holding a gun, the other holding a stick and carrying a large knife. Both are wearing turbans. Lying down is a female figure. They are posed amidst straw and against a plain background. 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