Half portrait of a seated Bedouin girl.
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1890
Materials
Paper
Measurements
102 x 65 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520691.50
Summary
An albumen print photograph depicting a half length portrait of a bedouin girl in half profile, seated with left arm touching cheek; wearing multi necklaces, earring and a scarf headdress. Markings: Handwritten in pencil on the album page above the photograph: 'Bedwins Mount Sinai". 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
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