Ceylonese Woman
Scowen & Co.
1880–1889
- Medium
- albumen print
- Dimensions
- Image: 14.4 x 9.5 cm (5 11/16 x 3 3/4 in.); Paper: 14.4 x 9.5 cm (5 11/16 x 3 3/4 in.)
- Genre
- Photographs
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Tags
India, 19th century
About
European photographers took portraits of the people of the colonized nations not for their subjects, but to sell them to governments as information, to tourists as aides memoires, and to “armchair tourists” as aids to the imagination.
