Title(s)

Portrait of an unknown man and woman from Travancore, India.

Object type

• photograph
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122H-47

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘452.’
• inscription: ‘POLAYERS./ SLAVE CASTE./ TRAVANCORE.’

Description

Travancore was een historisch land in de zuidelijke punt van India.

Artist

• anonymous

Place

Travancore

Dating

c. 1865 - in or before 1875

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 99 mm × width 61 mm

What

• human races; peoples; nationalities

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 eight (RP-F-2001-7-1122H)