IDNO

P.50976.RDG

Description

Full-length studio portrait of two women with pottery water vessels. Both wear dark tunics of patterned cloth with embroidered edges and full-length head coverings. They also wear neck, ear, arm and ankle ornamentation. The woman on the left has henna on her fingernails. One is seated on a pile of fake rocks, the other stands.

Place

N Africa; ?Egypt

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Art. A. Lekegian & Co. [Studio]

Collector / Expedition

Ridgeway, William

Date

circa 1887 - 1908

Collection Name

Ridgeway Collection

Source

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]