Young men posing naked on a terrace. Photographic postcard by W. von Gloeden, 19--.

Date:
[between 1900 and 1919?]
Reference:
2046083i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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Young men posing naked on a terrace. Photographic postcard by W. von Gloeden, 19--. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Photograph of four young men, possibly boys, posed on a terrace with a hillside in the background. Two are seated wearing loin cloths and two are nude showing their backs to the viewer.

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1900 and 1919?]

Physical description

1 photographic postcard : gelatin silver print ; 13.6 x 8.7 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Bears number: S. 5013/3

Notes

The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "Commercially-produced silver-gelatin print in postcard format by Wilhelm von Gloeden. Von Gloeden's photographs of naked Sicilian youths posed in quasi-Roman garb found a wide audience, and by the end of the 1890s were being reproduced in large numbers by publishers, principally in Germany."
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Reference

Wellcome Collection 2046083i

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  • Unlabelled photograph album

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