A turbanned young male.
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1890
Materials
Paper
Measurements
90 x 56 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520691.31
Summary
An albumen print photograph depicting a full length portrait of a young male. He is wearing a long garment and a white turban. He is holding a long thin object with both hands. He is posed stood on carpet with his left elbow resting on a plinth and against a pictured background. 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