A family portrait: a man without arms and legs poses on a table surrounded by family.

  • Arnaud
Date:
[20th Century]
Reference:
529180i
Part of:
The Fallaize Collection.
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Previous title, replaced May 2022: A middle-aged French man without arms or legs, with his family. Photograph by Arnaud, first quarter of the twentieth century

Description

The man is perched up on a table, his wife and daughter are seated, his sons stand beside him.

Publication/Creation

Rouen (29 Rue Thiers) : Arnaud, [20th Century]

Physical description

1 Photograph : photoprint

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.
People with disabilities
Tetra-Amelia Syndrome

Reference

Wellcome Collection 529180i

Ownership note

Originally collected by British anthropologist Edwin Nichol Fallaize (1877-1957). Purchased by Capt. L.W.G. Malcolm in 1934, on behalf of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, for the price of £25. From a letter in the Wellcome archives dated 16th December 1934.

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