Title(s)

A shopkeeper from the Bania community with a man in front of his wares in Delhi, India

Object type

• photograph
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122D-11

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘(184)’
• inscription: ‘bertson, Photo:’
• inscription: ‘BUNNEA./ HINDOO TRADESMAN./ DELHI.’

Artist

• Shepherd & Robertson (signed by artist)

Place

Delhi

Dating

c. 1859 - in or before 1869

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 166 mm × width 165 mm

What

• human races; peoples; nationalities
• trade, commerce and finance

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 four (RP-F-2001-7-1122D)