- Object name(s):
- Photography; Women washing clothes, Lhasa, Tibet
- Brief description:
- Women washing clothes, Lhasa, Tibet. Two women, one seated on a stone step the other crouching, wash clothes in three patterned bowls. The women smile and look towards the viewer. On the right is a churn. Behind the women is an open doorway, topped with a canopy, with script written on the door. Through the doorway is a sparse interior and a sunlit man, woman and child in a second doorway. Black and white image with a range of tones
- Collection:
- Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery
- Acquisition date:
- 1990
- Acquisition funding source:
- Catherine Lewis Trust
- Acquisition method:
- Purchase
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension value:
- 377
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension value:
- 276
- Inscription content:
- (black ink, verso) WASHDAY. LHASA. TIBET. / H/50/12
- Material:
- Silver print on Agfa Record Rapide semi-gloss paper
- Object name:
- Photography; Women washing clothes, Lhasa, Tibet
- Object number:
- PH655
- Object production date:
- 1980
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1980
- Date - latest:
- 1990
- Object production person:
- Rudy Lewis
- Person's association:
- Artist/Maker
- Person's biographical note:
- Photographer. Worked as a technician at the School of Art, 1990-2001. He lives and works in Aberystwyth but has photographed people and places in the USA, South America, East Africa, the Himalayas, India and the Far East. He had a one-man show at Aberystwyth Arts Centre in 1991
- Person's birth date:
- 1939
- Person's forenames:
- Rudy
- Person's place of birth:
- UK, Wales, Aberystwyth
- Person's surname:
- Lewis
- Object production place:
- UK, Wales, Aberystwyth
- Owner:
- The artist
- Organisation's association:
- Object source
- Responsible department/section:
- Photography
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/0498bfbc-b912-3148-a689-e1042f4823a9
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/0498bfbc-b912-3148-a689-e1042f4823a9, Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery, CC BY-NC
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