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Sinhalese

Sinhalese

Public Domain

Artist
CultureUnknown
Titles
  • Sinhalese
  • Buddhist Priest (Librarian at the Temple at Kandy, with palm-leaf MS. book in lap)
Datec. 1885
Place depictedSri Lanka
MediumAlbumen silver prints from glass negatives
DimensionsImage (Each): 5 3/4 × 3 7/8 in. (14.6 × 9.8 cm)
 Sheet (Each): 5 3/4 × 3 7/8 in. (14.6 × 9.8 cm)
 Mount: 12 3/16 × 16 1/16 in. (30.9 × 40.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by various donors
Object number2018.589.A,.B
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Dominic Winter Auctions, Near Cirencester, England, October 4, 2018, lot 741]; purchased by MFAH, 2018
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
(.A) Inscribed in negative, recto, lower right: SINHALESE [cut-off]

[no verso inscription]

(.B) [no inscriptions]

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