BIB_ID
456685
Accession number
MA 23840.1463a
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 photograph : color ; 8.8 x 8.8 cm
Notes
Commercially processed color snapshot, likely taken by either James Ivory or Ismail Merchant. Each photograph stamped "June 75" on verso.
Enclosed in a letter from James Ivory to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala dated October 7, 1975 [see MA 23840.1463].
Enclosed in a letter from James Ivory to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala dated October 7, 1975 [see MA 23840.1463].
Summary
Candid half-length shot of Firoza Jhabvala, often referred to as Poji, during a visit to Beechwood, the Westchester County estate that served as the location for the Merchant Ivory film "Savages" (1972), while the Jhabvalas were visiting New York in June-July 1975.
Catalog link
Department