Casgliadau Arlein
Amgueddfa Cymru
Chwilio Uwch
Photograph
Square black and white photograph of male tattoo artist tattooing man, with large ship tattoo on back. ‘From Akers in San Francisco(?) U.S.A. Sep 25th 1965’ written on reverse. One of a collection of items formerly belonging to tattoo artist Jessie Knight
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.
Pwnc
Bywyd Gwerin
Rhif yr Eitem
F2021.21.217
Derbyniad
Purchase, 1/3/2021
Mesuriadau
Meithder
(mm): 90
Lled
(mm): 88
Techneg
black and white (photograph)
Deunydd
paper (photographic)
Lleoliad
In store
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