Photographs
Sinhalese Man
Photograph
Details
- Author / creator
- Scowen & Co. (British, active Ceylon, 1876–1895)
- Object type
- Photograph
- Date or period
- c. 1880s
- Dimensions summary
- Image: 14.1 × 9.1 cm; Paper: 14.1 × 9.4 cm
- Photo process
- Albumen
- Studio or series
- Scowen & Co.
- Place of origin
- India
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the Public appeal (1998), 2018
About this object
The gentleman sports a Western jacket and shirt, but his distinctive hairstyle identifies him as Sinhalese, a people originally from northern India who now form the majority of the population of Sri Lanka.
Materials and technique
Albumen print
Signature and marks
Written in pencil on verso: “126”; Written in pencil on verso: “Singhalese”
