Marguerite Agniel posing laying on her side wearing a silver two-piece costume and matching turban, in a photographic studio.

Date:
1929
Reference:
540209i
Part of:
The Fallaize Collection.
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Description

Agniel is also seen, in the same costume, in 539793i-539795i

Publication/Creation

New York City ([48th Street and Broadway]) : De Mirjian Studios, 1929.

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Lettering

The courtesy of credit is requested - Thank you. De Mirjian Studios Bears number: 21 Accompanying typewritten text describes the benefits of this exercise The studio details are rubber-stamped on the verso and embossed into the print

Notes

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

References note

Reproduced: M. Agniel, The art of the body, London, 1931, Plate XV (a), f.p.30, Position for rubbing first one hip and then the other

Reference

Wellcome Collection 540209i

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.

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