Gypsy Girls
Category
Photographs
Date
1910
Materials
Glass, Wood, Gilt frame, Cardboard, Tacks
Measurements
185 x 155 x 20 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521202
Summary
A rectangular Crystoleum photograph of two gypsy girls in a woodland setting. One of the girls is stood, looking down, with her back to a tree trunk, she is wearing a long dress with a sash around her hips. She has a scarf on her long hair and is holding in her hands a tambourine. The other girl is sat near her, on a rock, looking back over her shoulder. Her clothing is the same but she has a stringed instrument in her lap. The frame is made of wood with four ridges, the outer two being painted black, whilst the inner two are gilt. On the back cardboard is tackes, with a small piece of string under one of the top tacks. On the top right hand corner is handwritten the number 1924.
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