Title(s)

Portrait of four pundits from the Marathi Brahmin community, one of them Rao Krishn Rao, and a servant, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India

Object type

• photograph

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122G-19

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘359.’
• inscription: ‘MAHRATTA PUNDITS./ BRAHMINS./ SAUGOR.’

Artist

• James John Waterhouse (possibly)

Place

Sagar

Dating

1862

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 140 mm × width 193 mm

What

• human races; peoples; nationalities
• head-gear: turban
• group of scholars or philosophers

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)