A Sicilian youth among almond trees by the sea. Process print, 190-.

Date:
[between 1900 and 1909?]
Reference:
2046012i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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A Sicilian youth among almond trees by the sea. Process print, 190-. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Colour print of a painting showing a human figure wearing a white robe. He is stood on a grassy slope amongst trees containing light pink flowers with the sea in the background.

Publication/Creation

Taormina : G. Attanasio, [between 1900 and 1909?]

Physical description

1 print : process print ; 9 x 13.8 cm

Lettering

Taormina - Mandorli in fiori. Bears number: 109

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.
The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "A printed postcard showing a semidraped youth in an idyllic Sicilian landscape among flowering almond trees. After the aristocratic German photographer Baron von Gloeden arrived in Taormina in 1876 and started photographing the local landscape and inhabitants (mostly teenage men), and holding exhibitions elsewhere in Europe, Taormina became a popular gay tourist destination for wealthy aesthetes including Oscar Wilde. A large number of photographs and postcards of fully clothed young men were sold openly, and a range of nude studies were widely available under the counter".

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2046012i

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