Title(s)

Portrait of Dina Sanichar, known as the Wolf Boy of Sikandra, Uttar Pradesh, India

Object type

• photograph
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1607-10

Inscriptions / marks

• title: ‘THE WOLF BOY OF SECUNDRA. LE LOUP-GAROU DE SECUNDRA. DER WOLF-BUB VON SECUNDRA.’

Artist

• anonymous

Place

Agra

Dating

c. 1889 - in or before 1894

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 176 mm × width 230 mm

What

• boy (child between toddler and youth)

Who

• Dina Sanichar

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 magazine of Indian photographs (RP-F-2001-7-1607)