Three white seated females with a black servant.
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1890
Materials
Paper
Measurements
93 x 55 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520691.25
Summary
An albumen print photograph depicting three seated white female figures with a young black servant holding a tray with cups on. The ladies are dressed in long skirts, one is holding a shisha pipe and another a small drum. They are posed in a studio with carpet. The print is mounted directly onto the page in the album. The 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