Title(s)

Portrait of an unknown brahmin (Hindu priest) with items for his morning prayers, from Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

Object type

• photograph
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122C-50

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘(160)’
• inscription: ‘BRAHMIN./ HINDOO./ SAHARUNPOOR.’

Artist

• anonymous

Place

Saharanpur

Dating

c. 1858 - in or before 1868

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 123 mm × width 95 mm

What

• human races; peoples; nationalities
• ritual practices with particular objectives ~ 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 three (RP-F-2001-7-1122C)