A man standing barechested with his arms behind his back. Photograph, 190-.

Date:
[between 1900 and 1909?]
Reference:
2060392i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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A man standing barechested with his arms behind his back. Photograph, 190-. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Publication/Creation

[between 1900 and 1909?]

Physical description

1 photograph : printed in sepia ; 15.2 x 10.6 cm

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.
The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "A young man poses in the style of Eugen Sandow. By the time this photograph was taken ca. 1905 Sandow was a popular cult figure in Great Britain, responsible for the increasing popularity of amateur bodybuilding and physical culture".
One in a pair of unmounted cabinet photographs showing the man barechested and clothed (the clothed one being Wellcome Library no. 2060394i). In both he is photographed against the photographer's painted backdrop

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2060392i

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