Title(s)

Portrait of an unknown tradesman from the Arora community of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, with coins in hand and in front of him

Object type

• photograph

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122E-5

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘(231)’
• inscription: ‘ARORA./ HINDOO TRADESMAN./ LAHORE.’

Artist

• anonymous

Place

Lahore

Dating

c. 1862 - in or before 1872

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 146 mm × width 109 mm

What

• human races; peoples; nationalities
• persons engaged in trade and commerce
• coin

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)