A woman wearing bodystocking posing on a dais as Flora?.

  • Walery.
Date:
[late 19th century]
Reference:
529256i
Part of:
The Fallaize Collection.
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Also known as

Previous title, replaced April 2022: A woman posing naked in a classical attitude on a dais, as Flora?, in a photographic studio. Photograph by Walery, before 1900.

Description

The woman is wearing a flesh-coloured bodystocking to appear like a marble statue, and she is garlanded with flowers

Publication/Creation

Paris : Walery, [late 19th century]

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Lettering

Walery 9bis Rue de Londres Paris reproduction interdite Lettering printed on the back of the mount gives a list of prizes awarded at various exhibitions, the most recent is the Exposition Universelle at Paris, 1889

Notes

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

Reference

Wellcome Collection 529256i

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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