Title(s)

Portrait of five unknown priests (brahmins) from Mandhata, Madhya Pradesh, India

Object type

• photograph

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122G-33

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘373.’
• inscription: ‘BRAHMINS OF OOMKAR./ MUNDHATA./ NIMAUR.’

Description

Oomkar uit de oorspronkelijke titel verwijst naar de Omkareshwar-tempel gelegen op Mandhata.

Artist

• James John Waterhouse (possibly)

Place

Mandhata

Dating

1862

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 125 mm × width 119 mm

What

• human races; peoples; nationalities
• head-gear: turban
• religious functionaries ~ Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism

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)