Title(s)

Portrait of an unknown fakir from the former Berar in central India

Object type

• photograph

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122G-62

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘402.’
• inscription: ‘BANWA FAKEER./ MUSSULMAN./ BERAR.’

Artist

• James Mulheran (possibly)

Place

Berar

Dating

1862

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 103 mm × width 77 mm

What

• human races; peoples; nationalities
• asceticism ~ 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)