Full-length portrait of a woman with vase and amphora.
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1890
Materials
Paper
Measurements
102 x 64 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520691.46
Summary
An albumen print photograph depicting a three-quarter length portrait of a woman, standing holding a small vase in her left hand and resting her right hand on a large amphora. She is wearing a long dark headscarf. 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