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Ceylonese Woman
The Cleveland Museum of Art

Ceylonese Woman

albumen printScowen & Co. (British, active Ceylon, 1876–1895)/c. 1880s

Description

European photographers took portraits of the people of the colonized nations not for their subjects, but to sell them to governments as information, to tourists as aides memoires, and to “armchair tourists” as aids to the imagination.

Provenance

Bruno Tartarin, Photovintagefrance, Lorraine, France; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Dimensions

14.4 × 9.5 cm

Movement / Period

Photography

Accession No

2018.220

Official Citations

[The Cleveland Museum of Art Official Record][Full Resolution Image]
Curatorial Affinity Stream

Continuing the Universe of Scowen & Co. (British, active Ceylon, 1876–1895)

Photography • India, 19th century • Harmonious Works & Contemporaries