An Interesting French Tubular Metal Post-Mortem or Anthropometric Photography Armchair c.1935-45 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope This information helps us to

This information helps us to further date this picture to within that time frame and it therefore certainly dates from between 1853 and 1880

while the male guards the house or temple from the outside

The picture in the book (shown with our photographs) shows the ‘schema delineatum anno 1675’ with the formal gardens surrounding it

Anthropological studies became a hot topic in 1781 when Johann Blumenbach designated five races or varieties of man

An Interesting French Tubular Metal Post-Mortem or Anthropometric Photography Armchair c.1935-45 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope This information helps us toOrigin: French Period: Early Mid 20thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1935 45 Width: 19. 5 Height: 44. 5 extending to 58. 5 or 18 at seat Depth: 20 (all at extremities) The evocative white painted tubular metal French made armchair, utilised by a medical professional as a photography chair, having particularly splayed legs for stability, and an adjustable shaped metal head rest to keep the patient in a fixed position, the whole surviving from a medical