Title(s)

Portrait of an unknown man from the Gangaputra Brahmin community of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, who places benches on the banks of the Ganges during religious festivals

Object type

• photograph
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122B-38

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘(93)’
• inscription, q: ‘GHAUTEEA./ HINDOO FRIAR./ BENARES.’

Description

Een brahmaan uit de Gangaputra-gemeenschaap is ook bekend als Ghatiya.

Artist

• anonymous

Place

Varanasi

Dating

c. 1858 - in or before 1868

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 160 mm × width 120 mm

What

• human races; peoples; nationalities
• 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 Volume two (RP-F-2001-7-1122B)