Fruitsellers (c. 1880): Art, History and Details
Fruitsellers at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1880, Albumen print from glass plate negative. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Fruitsellers (c. 1880) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Scowen & Co. (British, active Ceylon, 1876–1895).
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
Occupational scenes like Fruitsellers were popular subjects in 19th-century colonial photography. Like this image of fruit sellers in colonial Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), such images provided armchair travelers with insight into local life and customs, as seen through European eyes.
Object facts
- Title: Fruitsellers
- Date: c. 1880
- Creator attribution: Scowen & Co. (British, active Ceylon, 1876–1895)
- Culture: India, 19th century
- Type: Photograph
- Technique: Albumen print from glass plate negative
- Dimensions: Image: 20 x 27.2 cm (7 7/8 x 10 11/16 in.); Paper: 20 x 27.2 cm (7 7/8 x 10 11/16 in.); Mounted: 23.1 x 30.3 cm (9 1/8 x 11 15/16 in.)
- Collection: PH - British 19th Century
- Department: Photography
- Accession number: 2018.40
Collection credit
Gift of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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