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Francis Frith
Portrait, Turkish Summer Costume1857, printed circa 1862

Not on view
Sepia-toned oval portrait photograph, full-length view of a bearded white man seated on patterned textiles, wearing striped ethnic dress, fez cap, wide sash, and carrying a curved dagger

Francis Frith, Portrait, Turkish Summer Costume, 1857, printed circa 1862, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Francis Frith
England, 1822-1898
Title
Portrait, Turkish Summer Costume
Place Made
England
Date Made
1857, printed circa 1862
Medium
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
Image (sight): 7 × 5 1/2 in. (17.78 × 13.97 cm) Primary support: 17 1/8 × 12 in. (43.5 × 30.48 cm) Mat: 19 7/8 × 16 in. (50.48 × 40.64 cm)
Credit Line
The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection
Accession Number
AC1992.197.57
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography
  • Sobieszek, Robert and Deborah Irmas. the camera i: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection. Los Angeles: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1994.