Cleveland Museum of Art
Ceylonese Woman
Scowen & Co.
- Date
- c. 1880s
- Medium
- albumen print
- Culture
- India, 19th century
- Department
- Photography
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
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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