Viola Hamilton posing on a horse, in front of a painted medieval backdrop.

Date:: [1911]

Reference:: 539778i

Part of:: The Fallaize Collection.

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Collection contents

The Fallaize Collection.
- Viola Hamilton.
  - Viola Hamilton posing on a horse, in front of a painted medieval backdrop.539778i

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced August 2022: Viola Hamilton posing naked as Lady Godiva riding a horse, in front of a backdrop painted to represent mediaeval Coventry, in a photographic studio. Photograph by Hana Studios, 1911..

Description

Hamilton is wearing a flesh-coloured bodystocking and long trailing piece of cloth. She took the eponymous part in the Godiva Pageant at Coventry in 1911

Publication/Creation

London ([22 Bedford Street, Strand]) : Hana Studios Ltd., [1911]

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Contributors

Lettering

The studio details are in a stamp embossed in the lower right-hand corner

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 539778i

Ownership note

Originally collected by British anthropologist Edwin Nichol Fallaize (1877-1957). Purchased by Capt. L.W.G. Malcolm in 1934, on behalf of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, for the price of £25. From a letter in the Wellcome archives dated 16th December 1934.