Marguerite Agniel posing with her back arched and legs stretched out over her head, wearing a two-piece costume and matching turban, in a photographic studio.

  • De Mirjian Studios
Date:
1929
Reference:
539794i
Part of:
The Fallaize Collection.
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view Marguerite Agniel posing with her back arched and legs stretched out over her head, wearing a two-piece costume and matching turban, in a photographic studio.

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Marguerite Agniel posing with her back arched and legs stretched out over her head, wearing a two-piece costume and matching turban, in a photographic studio. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Agniel is also seen, in the same costume, in 539792i-539795i

Publication/Creation

New York City ([48th Street and Broadway]) : De Mirjian Studios, 1929.

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

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Lettering

The courtesy of credit is requested - Thank you. De Mirjian Studios Bears number: 16 Accompanying typewritten text describes the benefits of this exercise The studio details are rubber-stamped on the verso and embossed into the print

References note

Reproduced: M. Agniel, The art of the body, London, 1931, Plate XII (b), f.p.23

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This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 539794i

Ownership note

Originally collected by British anthropologist Edwin Nichol Fallaize (1877-1957). Purchased by Capt. L.W.G. Malcolm in 1934, on behalf of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, for the price of £25. From a letter in the Wellcome archives dated 16th December 1934.

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