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SIR EDWARD AUGUSTUS INGLEFIELD (1820-94)

An Inuit Nurse with a baby and young girl : 'Nurse and girl'

1854

Hand-coloured albumen print | 15.5 x 16.8 cm (image) | RCIN 2510471

Hand-coloured photograph of an Inuit woman ('Nurse'), standing and facing the viewer and holding a baby on her back. On her left stands a younger girl whose hands are raised towards the baby who also faces the viewer. The Nurse wears her hair in a band wound above her head.

  • Creator(s)

    Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield (1820-94) (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    Inuit

  • 15.5 x 16.8 cm (image)

  • Nurse and girl, Greenland [Album: HMS's Phoenix and Talbot in search of Sir John Franklin 1854].

  • Presented to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert by Captain Edward Augustus Inglefield in 1854

  • Subject(s)
    • Places
      • Polar regions
        • Arctic territories
          • Arctic regions
          • Greenland [Denmark]
    • Natural Sciences & Mathematics
      • Biological sciences
        • Zoology
          • Animals
            • Mammals
              • Humans
                • Babies (human)
    • People
      • Girls
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
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