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Squatting male, draped, with arms bound - artist's study

Photograph
c. 1857 (photographed), 1987 (printed)
Artist/Maker

Photograph of a squatting male nude in profile, with arms bound behind his back and fabric draped over his hips and bottom Taken from an original glass negative study for 'The Two Ways of Life'.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleSquatting male, draped, with arms bound - artist's study (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Modern gold toned gelatin silver print from a wet collodion negative. Printed onto 'Kodak Studio Proof' gelatin silver paper (discontinued in 1987), the closest extant paper to nineteenth-century printing-out paper. No attempt has been made to retouch or 'improve' the images, which have been made from the entire area of the negative.
Brief description
Photograph by Oscar Gustav Rejlander and printed by Ava Vargas, 'Squatting male, draped, with arms bound - artist's study', gelatin silver print, negative made c. 1857 (printed 1987)
Physical description
Photograph of a squatting male nude in profile, with arms bound behind his back and fabric draped over his hips and bottom Taken from an original glass negative study for 'The Two Ways of Life'.
Dimensions
  • Image height: 227mm
  • Paper width: 177mm
  • Paper height: 233mm
  • Paper width: 182mm
Credit line
The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund.
Production
This photograph is part of 'The Rejlander Portfolio'. Plate from a limited edition portfolio produced with the permission of The Royal Photographic Society in 1987. Only 30 sets of 10 gold toned printing-out paper prints were made direct from the original negatives. Note that the sets in The RPS Collection have not been numbered (artist proof sets?).
Associated object
PROV.1474-2017 (RPS Group record)
Other numbers
  • XRP469 - RPS collection - V&A identifier
  • 15404 - RPS identifier - inventory no.
Collection
Accession number
RPS.1402-2017

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Record createdMay 30, 2017
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