IDNO

P.50961.RDG

Description

Posed studio profile portrait of a Moorish woman carrying an infant boy? on her back. The woman wears a floor-length head scarf and leather slippers. The boy wears a striped European style top. The studio backdrop is painted with European trees and vegetation and the studio floor is covered with rushes.

Place

N Africa; Morocco; Tangier

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Cavilla, Antonio

Collector / Expedition

Ridgeway, William

Date

circa 1880

Collection Name

Ridgeway Collection

Source

Horobin (Mrs.)

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

The print was found in an envelope now marked C239/ which was inside the wooden drawer I.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 2/7/2007]