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  2. Paper: Travels in Finland and Bosnia-Herzegovina: An Ethnographic Collection of Sir Arthur Evans
  3. Unit: Portrait photographs by Russian and Eastern European studios, from a collection made by Arthur Evans

Russian woman

External links

Catalogue Entry (Pitt Rivers Museum)
Philip Grover, ‘New Cabinet Online Module: Travels in Finland and Bosnia-Herzegovina’

Commentary

Russian woman
Accession number: 
1941.8.153
Collection: 
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford

Studio portrait of a Russian woman, standing, wearing a dress and an apron.

Photographer: L. Gentschel studio (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Date of photograph: Circa 1860s
Continent: Europe
Geographical area: Central and Eastern Europe
Country: Russia
Region/Place: St. Petersburg
Cultural group: European Russian
Format: Carte de visite
Size: 105 x 67 mm
Acquisition: Joan Evans. Donated August 1941

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Primary documentation: ‘[p.588] Dr. JOAN EVANS, from the property of the late SIR ARTHUR EVANS, Youlbury, Boars Hill, Oxford. [List of items follows]’; ‘[p.590] 29 Photographs of Russian types, in box’: Pitt Rivers Museum accession records (Donations X, 1937–1941), pp.588, 590.

Research notes: This carte de visite has been identified as a photograph by L. Gentschel, taken from the printed information in Russian on the reverse. Genschel’s studio is described as being located at 14 Voznesenkii Prospect in St. Petersburg.