A man sitting backwards on a chair wearing formal attire. Photograph, 190-.

Date:
[between 1900 and 1909?]
Reference:
2060394i
Part of:
James Gardiner Collection: Romantic fantasy and comic postcards, and photographs on gender and masculinity.
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A man sitting backwards on a chair wearing formal attire. Photograph, 190-. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Publication/Creation

[between 1900 and 1909?]

Physical description

1 photograph : printed in sepia ; 15.2 x 10.6 cm

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.
The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "This effeminate young dandy sports an elaborately pinned cravat, fancy waistcoat, floral buttonhole, and long manicured fingernails. He could have walked out of the pages of Proust".
One in a pair of unmounted cabinet photographs showing the man barechested and clothed (the barechested one being Wellcome Library no. 2060392i). In both he is photographed against the photographer's painted backdrop

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2060394i

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