The English at Home. 20th Century Photographs from the Hyman Collection: Centre for British Photography

26 January - 28 May 2023

Bill Brandt

The Perfect Parlourmaid (Parlourmaid at a Window in Kensington), 1935

Vintage Gelatin Silver Print

22.8 x 19.3 cms 8 15/16 x 7 9/16 ins

Series: 1. The English at Home

11136

Further images

View on a Wall

Provenance

The Estate of Bill Brandt
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York

Exhibitions

'The English at Home: 20th Century Photographs from The Hyman Collection' at the Centre for British Photography, London (26 January - 28 May 2023)

Literature

Sarah Hermanson Meister, Bill Brandt: Shadow & Light, (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2013), p. 48. (illustrated)
Bill Jay and Nigel Warburton, Brandt: The Photography of Bill Brandt, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1999 (illustrated p.74)
Bill Brandt, London in the Thirties, 1983, pl.66 (illustrated full page)
Mark Haworth-Booth (intro.) and David Mellor (essay), Bill Brandt. Behind the Camera. Photographs 1928-1983, Aperture/Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1985 (illustrated p.20)
Bill Brandt, Shadow of Light, 1977 (illustrated p.4)
'The Perfect Parlourmaid', Picture Post, vol. 4, no. 4 (July 29, 1939), pp. 43-7. (illustrates a lesser known variant of the present photograph in which the maid's position slightly differs)

Photographer's '58, Hillfield Court' stamp on verso. Other vintage prints of this work are in the collection of Museum of Modern Art, New York and The Metropolitan Museum, New York....