"Egyptian Types - Native Woman" (number 29)
Zaslavsky & Kalmanovitch, Alexandria, Egypt
early 20th century
Photo offset lithograph postcard
Overall: 5 3/8 × 3 1/2 in. (13.7 × 8.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund
2006.18.25
Publisher
Edition P.C. M.J., Alexandria and Paris
Geography
Place Made: Egypt, Northern Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Printed, in black ink, top right: 29. - Egyptian Types / Native Woman; printed, in black ink, on reverse, along left side, from bottom to top: P.C.M.J., Alexandrie-Paris; printed, in black ink, on reverse, lower left: Zaslawsky & Kalmanovitch, Alexandrie; printed, in black ink, on reverse, lower right: 29. -Types Egyptiennes
Course History
HIST 7.2, Harem: European Imaginations and Ottoman Realities, Zeynep Turkyilmaz, Katherine Hart, Amelia Kahl, Spring 2012
WGST 41.4, Transnational Muslim Feminisms, Zahra. Ayubi, Fall 2014
REL 28.04, MES 19.05, WGSS 43.06, Gender in Islam, Zahra Ayubi, Spring 2020
Religion 28.04, Middle Eastern Studies 19.05, Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies 43.06, Gender in Islam, Zahra Ayubi, Summer 2023
Religion 28.04, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 43.06, Middle Eastern Studies 19.05, Gender in Islam, Zahra Ayubi, Summer 2024
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. 214, plate 82.
Provenance
Alexandre Przopiorski, Lyon, France; sold to present collection, 2006.
Catalogue Raisonne
P.C.M.J. no. 29
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