A young woman with her arms above her head, posing naked in a doorway.

Date:: Approximately 1900

Reference:: 540696i

Part of:: The Fallaize Collection.

Pictures

Collection contents

The Fallaize Collection.
- Portraits of English women.
  - A young woman with her arms above her head, posing naked in a doorway.540696i

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced September 2022: A young woman posing naked in a domestic setting, side view, beside a doorway. Photograph, ca.1900.

Description

Unlike other photographs of this type taken at this time, the negative is not airbrushed or retouched, nor does the subject cover herself

Publication/Creation

Approximately 1900.

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Contributors

Fallaize, Edwin Nichol, 1877-1957former owner

Notes

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

Reference

Wellcome Collection 540696i

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.