A headshot of a young woman wearing a low cut gown and holding a flower arranged in her decolletage.

Oricelly, J.

Date:: [approximately 1900]

Reference:: 529625i

Part of:: The Fallaize Collection.

Pictures

Collection contents

The Fallaize Collection.
- Photographic portraits of women: Paris.
  - A headshot of a young woman wearing a low cut gown and holding a flower arranged in her decolletage.529625i

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced April 2022: A young woman posing in front of a plain backdrop in a photographic studio. Coloured photographic postcard by J. Oricelly, ca. 1900.

Description

The same woman is also shown in Wellcome Library catalogue no. 529626i. She is wearing a low-cut gown, with a flower arranged in her decolletage.

Publication/Creation

[Paris?], [approximately 1900]

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint with gouache.

Contributors

Lettering

Oricelly Delisle album 5e Lettering printed on the verso: Carte Postale

Notes

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

Reference

Wellcome Collection 529625i

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.