Title(s)

Portrait of an unknown money changer in Sindh, Pakistan

Object type

• photograph

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122F-57

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘330.’
• inscription: ‘SHROFF OR NATIVE BANKER./ HINDOO./ SIND.’

Artist

• Henry Charles Baskerville Tanner (possibly)
• William Robert Houghton (possibly)

Place

Sindh

Dating

c. 1862 - in or before 1872

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 129 mm × width 104 mm

What

• human races; peoples; nationalities
• banker
• 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 six (RP-F-2001-7-1122F)