Egyptian Dancing Girl
1858
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Dimensions
- 20.8 × 16.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-883958
In the 1800s, a growing interest in what were considered exotic lands spawned a proliferation of images and texts that dealt with the foreign individual as the mysterious "other." Although costumed as an Egyptian dancer, this woman is actually an English model posing in Roger Fenton's London studio. Unable to capture the woman dancing since movement would render the image a blur, the photographer instead showed various musical instruments associated with dance.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- 1858 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs
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