IDNO

P.50986.RDG

Description

Three-quarter studio portrait of a young woman wearing a patterned tunic with embroidered detail and fine gauze shawl covers her head. She wears one short string of beads and a longer neck ornament with two strands made of chain, beads, and coins, as well as arm ornaments. The woman fingernails have been hennaed, and she is holding a pottery water vessel. There appears to be a painted backdrop.

Place

N Africa; Egypt; Cairo

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. [JD 2/7/2007]