'Half-Caste Arab Woman'. Photographer: Unknown

T.11308/5

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The record is made up of 1 albumen Method of printing photographs using an emulsion of salt and egg white (albumen). print. It was created in Mid 1870s. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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Genre/Subject Matter:

This three-quarter length seated studio portrait of a young woman is intended to demonstrate an ethnic or class ‘type’, in this case that of a ‘half-caste’ woman. She wears a simple dye-patterned garment and a polka-dot shawl, which covers her head and right shoulder. Beneath her shawl appears to be another, more close-fitting piece of material, which may be a silk kerchief intended to conceal her hair.

Inscriptions:

In pencil, upper left corner adjacent to print: ‘5’

Extent and format
1 albumen Method of printing photographs using an emulsion of salt and egg white (albumen). print
Physical characteristics

Dimensions:

92 x 95 mm [portrait]

Format:

1 albumen Method of printing photographs using an emulsion of salt and egg white (albumen). print pasted to backing paper and mounted between pp. 34-35

Materials:

Silver printing-out paper, albumen Method of printing photographs using an emulsion of salt and egg white (albumen). print

Condition:

The print is unevenly hand-cut, with some light ink splatter-marks on the left-hand side in particular.

Foliation:

‘5’

Process:

Albumen Method of printing photographs using an emulsion of salt and egg white (albumen). print

Written in
English in Latin script
Type
Photograph

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British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.
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Unrestricted

Archive reference
T.11308/5

History of this record

Date(s)
Mid 1870s (CE, Gregorian)

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Subjects
Ethnographic heritage
Places
Aden
People & organisations
Frederick Mercer Hunter

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'Half-Caste Arab Woman'. Photographer: Unknown, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, T.11308/5, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023400730.0x00000b> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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