Marguerite Agniel posing laying on her back with her arms stretched out above her head. She is wearing a two-piece costume and matching turban.

Date:: 1929

Reference:: 540202i

Part of:: The Fallaize Collection.

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Collection contents

The Fallaize Collection.
- Marguerite Agniel.
  - Marguerite Agniel posing laying on her back with her arms stretched out above her head. She is wearing a two-piece costume and matching turban.540202i

About this work

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

Contributors

Fallaize, Edwin Nichol, 1877-1957former owner

Lettering

The courtesy of credit is requested - Thank you. De Mirjian Studios Bears number: 14 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 X (c), f.p.21, The swimming motion on land

Reference

Wellcome Collection 540202i

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.