A set of nine pictures of Egyptian women posing naked in a photographic studio.

Date:
[approximately 1900]
Reference:
535514i
Part of:
The Fallaize Collection.
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About this work

Description

The women are different, and pose singly or in pairs, with various props

Publication/Creation

Cairo (oppsit Shepheard's Hotel) : G. Lekegian & Co, [approximately 1900]

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint ; each image 5 x 3.5 cm

Lettering

Bears numbers: 99, 101, 102, 103, 105, 106, 107

Notes

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

Reference

Wellcome Collection 535514i

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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