carte-de-visite
- Museum number
- Af,B7.22
- Description
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Portrait of European adult male, Captain Speedy, with Ethiopian male child, Prince Alamayu, sitting on his knee. Child wearing patterned robe, necklace. Adult wearing Ethiopian noble or military costume of robe, head-gear, fur cape. Circular shield in front of males. Medium: Carte-de-visite. Black and white.
Medium: Black and white. Carte-de-visite.
Format: Print mounted on card.
Main Themes of Box: Pottery-making in Sudan; Somali village life including shelters, market, water-collecting; studio-portraits of Africans, most wearing American clothing.
- Production date
- 1868
- Dimensions
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Length: 10.32 centimetres
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Width: 6.16 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Some information supplied by Kurimoto, E (Osaka, NME), 31/01/1996.
Geography: Location refers to photographers' studio.
Ethnic groups suggested by T Cotterill, 12/11/1996.
Circumstances: [KUR-] PIC DOC 09.
Captain Speedy is also depicted in Af,B7.20, 21, 22, 28 and 29.
Prince Alamayu is also depicted in Af,B7.19 and 21-27.
Im Coll: 24-1939
Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, reference number; an albumen print of Prince Alamayu by Julia Margaret Cameron.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2024-2025, 17 Oct–9 Feb, London, BM, G35, 'Hew Locke: what have we here?'
- Acquisition date
- 1939
- Acquisition notes
- Copyright: British Museum.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af,B7.22
