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Black and white photograph: half figure of male with birds / serpent tattooed on his chest and various tattoos on arms. Pencil marks on back, and faded stamp of photographer in Aldershot.
Jessie Knight was the first prominent female tattooist in the UK. She took over her father's tattoo shop in Barry aged 18 in 1927 and went on to prominence whilst working in Chatham, Portsmouth and Aldershot. She returned to Barry in 1968, and continued to work there as a tattoo artist into the 1980s.
Collection Area
Social & Cultural History
Item Number
F2021.21.203
Acquisition
Purchase, 1/3/2021
Measurements
Length
(mm): 152
Width
(mm): 112
Techniques
black and white (photograph)
Material
paper (photographic)
Location
In store
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