Title(s)

Three men from Bhutan on the street

Object type

• photograph

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122A-44

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘(43)’
• inscription: ‘GROUP OF BHOTANESE./ CHIEFLY OF TIBETAN ORIGIN./ BHOTAN.’

Artist

• Benjamin Simpson (possibly)

Place

Bhutan

Dating

c. 1858 - in or before 1868

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 170 mm × width 205 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 (RP-F-2001-7-1122A)