Egypt - A Mother ("Egypte - Une Mere")
early 20th century
Photo offset lithograph postcard
Overall: 5 1/2 × 3 9/16 in. (14 × 9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund
2006.18.22
Publisher
B. Livadas & Coutisicos, Cairo, Egypt
Geography
Place Made: Egypt, Northern Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Printed, on reverse, in black ink, lower left: EGYPT - A MOTHER / EGYPTE - Une Mere; Printed, on reverse, in black ink, along left side, bottom to top: N. 437 B. LIVADAS & COUTSICOS-CAIRO; printed, in black ink, on reverse, top center: POST CARD / EGYPT
Course History
HIST 7.2, Harem: European Imaginations and Ottoman Realities, Zeynep Turkyilmaz, Katherine Hart, Amelia Kahl, Spring 2012
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.
Provenance
Alexandre Przopiorski, Lyon, France; sold to present collection, 2006.
Catalogue Raisonne
B. Livadas & Cousicos no. 437
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