# Ceylonese Woman

- By: Scowen & Co. (British, active Ceylon, 1876–1895)
- By: Skeen & Co. (British, active 1860–1920)
- Date: c. 1880s
- Medium: albumen print
- Classification: Photograph
- Dimensions: Image: 14.4 x 9.5 cm (5 11/16 x 3 3/4 in.); Paper: 14.4 x 9.5 cm (5 11/16 x 3 3/4 in.)
- Culture: India, 19th century
- Credit line: Purchase from the Karl B. Goldfield Trust
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.220)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.220/2018.220_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

European photographers took portraits of the people of the colonized nations not for their subjects, but to sell them to governments as information, to tourists as aides memoires, and to “armchair tourists” as aids to the imagination.