Title(s)

Portrait of an unknown priest from the Smarta Brahmin community of Mysore, Karnataka, India

Object type

• photograph
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122H-8

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘413.’
• inscription: ‘LAUKIKA SMARTHA./ BRAHMIN./ MYSORE.’

Artist

• anonymous

Place

Mysore

Dating

c. 1865 - in or before 1875

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 98 mm × width 76 mm

What

• human races; peoples; nationalities
• Brahma (supreme being, creator, etc. ~ Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism)
• head-gear: turban

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)