Ceylonese Woman

Ceylonese Woman

c. 1880s

Scowen & Co.

(British, active Ceylon, 1876-1895)

or Skeen & Co.

(British, active 1860-1920)

India, 19th century

Albumen print

Image: 14.4 x 9.5 cm (5 11/16 x 3 3/4 in.); Paper: 14.4 x 9.5 cm (5 11/16 x 3 3/4 in.)

Purchase from the Karl B. Goldfield Trust 2018.220

Location

not on view

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Fun Fact

Skeen & Co. and Scowen & Co., the two leading photographic establishments in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in the 1880s, rarely signed their work.

Description

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.

See also
Collection: 
PH - British 19th Century
Department: 
Photography
Type of artwork: 
Photograph
Medium: 
Albumen print
Credit line: 
Purchase from the Karl B. Goldfield Trust

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