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Ceylonese Woman
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineCeylonese Woman, c. 1880s. Scowen & Co. (British, active Ceylon, 1876–1895), or Skeen & Co. (British, active 1860–1920). Albumen print; 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the Karl B. Goldfield Trust, 2018.220
