Viola Hamilton posing in front of a velvet backdrop.

Date:
[1911]
Reference:
539749i
Part of:
The Fallaize Collection.
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Also known as

Previous title, replaced August 2022: Viola Hamilton, posing naked standing on a podium, in front of a velvet backdrop in a photographic studio. Photograph by Hana Studios, 1911..

Description

The model is wearing a flesh-coloured bodystocking which has been retouched out on the negative, she also holds a long transparent piece of cloth

Publication/Creation

London (22 Bedford Street, Strand) : Hana Studios Ltd., [1911]

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Lettering

Miss Viola Hamilton (Lady Godiva) C LEA From the Hana Studios, Ltd 22, Bedford Street, Strand London The studio details are rubber-stamped on the verso, the other lettering is pencilled on the verso

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 539749i

Ownership note

Originally collected by British anthropologist Edwin Nichol Fallaize (1877-1957). Purchased by Capt. L.W.G. Malcolm in 1934, on behalf of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, for the price of £25. From a letter in the Wellcome archives dated 16th December 1934.

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