Portrait of an unknown man from the Gangaputra Brahmin community of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, who places benches on the banks of the Ganges during religious festivals

Portrait of an unknown man from the Gangaputra Brahmin community of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, who places benches on the banks of the Ganges during religious festivals

RP-F-2001-7-1122B-38

Een brahmaan uit de Gangaputra-gemeenschaap is ook bekend als Ghatiya.

• inscription, q: ‘GHAUTEEA./ HINDOO FRIAR./ BENARES.’
• number: ‘(93)’

photographer: anonymous, Varanasi

c. 1858 - in or before 1868

albuminedruk

height 160 mm x width 120 mm

Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

purchase 2001

Public domain

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