Title(s)

Portrait of an unknown knitting woman from the Bhutia community near Lhasa in Tibet

Object type

• photograph

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122A-56

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘(55)’
• inscription: ‘BHOTIA FEMALE./ BUDDHIST./ NEAR LHASSA, TIBET’

Artist

• Benjamin Simpson (possibly)

Place

Lhasa

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
• knitting
• Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism

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)