Don McCullin
A child suffering from the first stages of Cholera has polluted water poured over his forehead to cool the fever

A child suffering from the first stages of Cholera has polluted water poured over his forehead to cool the fever

© Don McCullin

A child suffering from the first stages of Cholera has polluted water poured over his forehead to cool the fever
A child suffering from the first stages of Cholera has polluted water poured over his forehead to cool the fever
ArtistBritish, born 1935
CultureBritish
Titles
  • A child suffering from the first stages of Cholera has polluted water poured over his forehead to cool the fever
Date1971
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 11 9/16 × 7 7/8 in. (29.4 × 20 cm)
 Sheet: 14 × 10 15/16 in. (35.6 × 27.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by "One Great Night in November, 2007" in honor of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., and by Marion Mundy
Object number2007.1442
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceMarilyn Bridges, Warwick, New York; purchased by MFAH, 2007.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso center in pencil " copy neg # 28 "

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