Title(s)

Portrait of Bustee, a man sitting in cross-legged position from Hisar, Haryana, India

Object type

• photograph

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122D-6

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘(179)’
• inscription: ‘BUSTEE./ HINDOO./ HISSAR.’

Artist

• anonymous

Place

Hisar

Dating

c. 1859 - in or before 1869

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 166 mm × width 119 mm

What

• human races; peoples; nationalities
• head-gear: turban

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)