A veiled female figure.
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1890
Materials
Paper
Measurements
91 x 54 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520691.27
Summary
An albumen print photograph depicting a half-length female figure. She is wearing a white head scarf, a striped gown and a long, dark face veil, attached by a ringed cylinder to her head scarf.. She is posed against a plain background. The print is photographically captioned from the negative, with the number 40. The print is mounted directly onto the page in the album. The protrait 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