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Description: | A photographic study of a woman entitled 'A Head', taken by Fred Holland Day (1864-1933) in 1905.
The sitter is Beatrice Baxter Ruyl, who also appears in 'Praying Hands' taken in the same year. Ruyl was an illustrator of children's books and worked for the 'Boston Herald'. Day was a prominent American photographer. A millionaire book publisher and aesthete, he was a friend of Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) and Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898). In 1900 Day organised a photographic exhibition 'The New School of American Photography' which was shown in London and created a sensation. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | photograph platinum print | Temporal: | 1905 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Day, Fred Holland (1864-1933) | Identifier: | 2003-5001/2/20446 | Go to resource |
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