A woman wearing bodystocking standing with her hands behind her head.

  • Walery.
Date:
[approximately 1900]
Reference:
531761i
Part of:
The Fallaize Collection.
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About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced April 2022: A woman posing naked in a photographic studio, standing with her hands behind her head. Photographic postcard by Walery, ca.1900.

Description

The woman is wearing a flesh-coloured bodystocking to appear like a marble statue

Publication/Creation

Paris : Walery, [approximately 1900]

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Lettering

Walery Paris S.I.P. Bears number: 26e serie No 5

Notes

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

Reference

Wellcome Collection 531761i

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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