Title(s)

Portrait of Rao Krishn Rao, a pundit from Sagar at a reading table, Madhya Pradesh, India

Object type

• photograph
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122G-17

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘357.’
• inscription: ‘RAO KRISHN RAO./ HINDOO./ SAUGOR.’

Artist

• photographer: James John Waterhouse (possibly)

Place

Sagar

Dating

1862

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 148 mm × width 109 mm

What

• human races; peoples; nationalities
• scholar in his study

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 seven (RP-F-2001-7-1122G)