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[Dorothy Knapp, full-length portrait, seated, nude, left profile, with blanket draped over legs] – Vintage Wall Art

[Dorothy Knapp, full-length portrait, seated, nude, left profile, with blanket draped over legs] — historic photograph
[Dorothy Knapp, full-length portrait, seated, nude, left profile, with blanket draped over legs]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures [Dorothy Knapp, full-length portrait, seated, nude, left profile, with blanket draped over legs] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Dorothy Knapp, full-length portrait, seated, nude, left profile, with blanket draped over legs]

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Dorothy Knapp sits in left profile, nude, with a blanket draped over her legs, a pose that makes this a figure study rather than a staged stage portrait. The caption card credits Alfred Cheney Johnston, a New York photographer known for studio portraits of performers in Broadway revues, and tags the picture to theater and musical revue. The card carries no date, and its details are old and unverified, so the image is best read as an example of how stage performers were photographed in the early twentieth century.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SubjectsPhoto by Alfred Cheney Johnston. No. 24. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Theater--Musical revue; Figure studies; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,211 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136525

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