Full-length portrait of three women and a man with musical instruments.
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1890
Materials
Paper
Measurements
101 x 64 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520691.45
Summary
An albumen print photograph depicting a full-length portrait of three women and a man , with musical instruments. The woman on the left is wearing dark clothes and a dark full veil, is seated on the ground and holds a tambourine. The woman second from left is wearing a pale dress, has no veil, is seated and also holds a tambourine. The woman third from left is wearing a dark dress/robe and a dark full veil, is standing up and also holds a tambourine. The man on the right is seated on an upturned basket, wearing pale robes and headdress and is playing a long wind instrument. 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