Title(s)

Praying boy and a girl with a book behind a desk from Chota Nagpur in eastern India

Object type

• photograph
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122A-19

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘(19)’
• inscription: ‘COLE CHRISTIANS./ ABORIGINAL./ CHOTA NAGPOOR.’

Description

Het werk van de missionaris resulteerde in de bekering van de stambevolking tot het christendom.

Artist

• photographer: Benjamin Simpson (possibly)

Place

Chota Nagpur

Dating

c. 1858 - in or before 1868

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 175 mm × width 130 mm

What

• human races; peoples; nationalities
• one person praying

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• The people of India : a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan (RP-F-2001-7-1122A)