Mixed race: Cora, age 18, born of a negro father and Indian mother (dorsal)
Mixed race: Cora, age 18, born of a negro father and Indian mother (dorsal)

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Mixed race: Cora, age 18, born of a negro father and Indian mother (dorsal),

ca. 1881

Bertall, French, 1820–1882
2008-1057

Information

Title
Mixed race: Cora, age 18, born of a negro father and Indian mother (dorsal)
Dates

ca. 1881

Maker
Bertall
Medium

Photogravure

Dimensions

image: 18.1 x 12.4 cm. (7 1/8 x 4 7/8 in.)
sheet: 28 x 22.1 cm. (11 x 8 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund

Object Number
2008-1057
Place Made

Europe, France, Paris

Marks/Labels/Seals

Printed above image, left and right: Société d’Ethnographie. / Collection Anthropologique
Printed above blow image, left, center, and right: Bertall phot. / 3. / Héliogrf et imp. Lemercier et Cie. Paris

Culture
French
Type
black-and-white photographs, photographs, albumen prints
Techniques
photogravure
Subject
nudes, figures (representations), studies (visual works), women

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