"Egypt - Native Woman"
L. Scortzis & Co. (active 1906 - 1915), Cairo, Egypt
early 20th century
Hand colored photo offset lithograph postcard on paper
Overall: 5 1/2 × 3 9/16 in. (14 × 9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund
2006.18.37
Geography
Place Made: Egypt, Northern Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Printed, in black ink, lower left: EGYPT - Native Woman; printed, in black ink, on reverse, along left side, from bottom to center: 131 L. Scortzis et Co. -Cairo; printed, in black ink, on reverse, lower left: EGYPTE - Femme Inigene.; printed, in black ink, on reverse, top center: POST CARD - EGYPT
Course History
HIST 7.2, Harem: European Imaginations and Ottoman Realities, Zeynep Turkyilmaz, Katherine Hart, Amelia Kahl, Spring 2012
ANTH 64, The Evolution of Pregnancy, Zaneta Thayer, Spring 2019
Exhibition History
Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-August 10, 2008; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, September 10-December 10, 2008; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, January 21-April 26, 2009.
Publication History
Barbara Thompson, Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Seattle: University of Washington Press [Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College], 2008, p. 215, plate 83.
Provenance
Alexandre Przopiorski, Lyon, France; sold to present collection, 2006.
Catalogue Raisonne
L. Scortzis & Co. no. 131
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