Marguerite Agniel leaning back with her arms by her side and holding her feet, whilst lifting her bum and torso off the ground.

Previous title, replaced September 2022: Marguerite Agniel posing leaning back wearing a revealing silver two-piece costume and matching turban, on a rug, in a photographic studio. Photograph by J. de Mirjian, ca.1929.

New York City ([48th Street and Broadway]) : De Mirjian Studios, 1929.

1 photograph : photoprint

The courtesy of credit is requested - Thank you. De Mirjian Studios Bears number: 33 Accompanying typewritten text describes the benefits of this exercise The studio details are rubber-stamped on the verso and embossed into the print

Photograph attributed to J. de Mirjian.

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

Reproduced: M. Agniel, The art of the body, London, 1931, Plate XXVI (a), f.p.51, Exercises for the neck

Wellcome Collection 540251i

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.