photographic print
- Museum number
- Af,B24.19
- Description
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Full-length, frontal portrait of Jewish adult female, Morocco. Female wearing elaborate costume with embroidered slippers, draped [?] gown, cap and head-cloth, patterned belt, necklaces. Leaning against patterned cloth beside pillar.
Albumen print.
Format: One of seven prints mounted on card, one print on other side of card.
- Production date
- 1850-1900 (?)
- Dimensions
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Length: 11.20 centimetres
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Width: 9.80 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Biography: Relationship of McCarthy to image is unclear.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Print mounted on disintegrating card.
- Acquisition date
- 1850-1970
- Acquisition notes
- Copyright: British Museum.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af,B24.19
