Ceylonese Woman

Cleveland Museum of Art

Ceylonese Woman

Scowen & Co.LinkedCulture matchlcp-3e11c251d14d

Date
c. 1880s
Medium
albumen print
Culture
India, 19th century
Department
Photography
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
313231

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European photographers took portraits of the people of the colonized nations not for their subjects, but to sell them to governments as information, to tourists as aides memoires , and to “armchair tourists” as aids to the imagination. Skeen & Co. and Scowen & Co., the two leading photographic establishments in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in the 1880s, rarely signed their work.

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Credit line
Purchase from the Karl B. Goldfield Trust
Provenance
Bruno Tartarin, Photovintagefrance, Lorraine, France | September 4, 2018: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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