Egypt - Arab Women Visitors ("Egypte. - Femmes arabes en visite")
Unknown Egyptian, Egyptian
early 20th century
Photo offset lithograph postcard
Overall: 3 9/16 × 5 1/2 in. (9 × 14 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund
2006.18.19
Publisher
G. K. Publisher, Cairo
Geography
Place Made: Egypt, Northern Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Printed, in black ink, bottom left: 1026; printed in black ink, bottom center: Egypte - Femmes arabes en visite.; printed, in black ink, along left side: G. K. - Droit reserve; printed on reverse, in black ink, top left: UNION POSTALE UNIVERSELLE / EGYPTE / CARTE POSTALE; printed, in black ink, top border: L'adresse seule doit etre ecrite de ce cote [arabic printing]
Course History
HIST 7.2, Harem: European Imaginations and Ottoman Realities, Zeynep Turkyilmaz, Katherine Hart, Amelia Kahl, Spring 2012
Art History 31.01, Arts of South Asia, Seher Agarwala, Fall 2023
Exhibition History
Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-August 10, 2008; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, September 10-December 10, 2008; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, January 21-April 26, 2009.
Publication History
Barbara Thompson, Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Seattle: University of Washington Press [Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College], 2008, p. 204, plate 72.
Provenance
Alexandre Przopiorski, Lyon, France; sold to present collection, 2006.
Catalogue Raisonne
G.K. no. 1026
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