Title(s)

Portrait of a mendicant (Bairagi) from Multan, Punjab, Pakistan, who carries water from the Ganga river

Object type

• photograph
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122E-49

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘(277)’
• inscription: ‘BAIRAGEE./ HINDOO MENDICANT FRIAR./ MOOLTAN.’

Artist

• photographer: anonymous

Place

Multan

Dating

c. 1862 - in or before 1872

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 145 mm × width 105 mm

What

• human races; peoples; nationalities
• religious functionaries ~ 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 five (RP-F-2001-7-1122E)