Full-length portrait of a women, carrying a naked child on her shoulders.
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1890
Materials
Paper
Measurements
101 x 65 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520691.44
Summary
An albumen print photograph depicting a full length portrait of a woman, carrying a naked child on her shoulders. She is wearing robes and a dark full veil, and sandals. She appears to be walking along the ground outdoors, with indistinct 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