Title(s)

Portrait of an unknown raja in Narsinghpur, Madhya Pradesh, India

Object type

• photograph
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122G-22

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘362.’
• inscription: ‘RAJAH OF GUNGYEE./ HINDOO./ NURSINGPOOR.’

Artist

• photographer: James John Waterhouse (possibly)

Place

Narsinghpur

Dating

1862

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 139 mm × width 100 mm

What

• human races; peoples; nationalities
• head-gear: turban
• ruler, sovereign

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)