Marguerite Agniel leaning back with her arms outstretched and her legs tucked behind her, in a photographic studio.

Previous title, replaces September 2022: Marguerite Agniel posing with her arms outstretched wearing a revealing silver two-piece costume and matching turban, on a rug, in a photographic studio.

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: 28 Accompanying typewritten text describes the benefits of this exercise The studio details are rubber-stamped on the verso and embossed into the print

Reproduced: M. Agniel, The art of the body, London, 1931, Plate XXI (b), f.p.42, Imagine you are pulling yourself up by an invisible horizontal bar

Photograph attributed to J. de Mirjian

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

Wellcome Collection 540249i

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.