An albumen print laid on paper with the title on recto "Persane". The number "143" appears on recto of the print in white ink.
An offset print of the image is also in the Nelson collection and is titled "Femme Persane dans la rue" on recto.
This image also appears in colour in “Autour du monde, aquarelles, souvenirs de voyages XL, En Perse. Types, costumes et Moeurs” published by L Boulanger, Paris, c1890 and is titled “Persane en costume de ville” (CCCXVIII). The photogravure is from a set of eight Persian images by Antoin Sevruguin and was printed by Charles Gillot (1853-1903), a Paris based engraver and art collector who incorporated the photographic discoveries of Daguerre and Niepce into his engraving techniques and ultimately perfected a process for reproducing book illustrations in colour. The image also has the number “143” in white ink on recto in the same location as the albumen print in the Nelson collection.
Literature
Russell Harris and Isabel Miller, "The Sevruguin Photographs", Asian Art (February 2011) 6-7.
Melanie Venes and Jennifer Wearden, "A Persian Venture", Hali 148 (2006) 60-61.
Frederick N. Bohrer, "Sevruguin and the Persian Image. Photographs of Iran, 1870-1930". Washington DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1999.
Publications
An albumen photograph, captioned "Persian Woman", mounted in a leather-bound album, that is part of the C.R. Smith archive at the V&A is attributed to Antoin Sevruguin.
Another albumen print is also contained in the Myron Bement Smith Collection, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. (Gift of Katherine Dennis Smith, 1973-1985). The photograph is attributed to Antoin Sevruguin and a handwritten number (inked, probably by Antoin Sevruguin) also reads, "143."
A reproduction of this image is located on page 274 of “Antoin Sevruguin: Past and Present” published by The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in 2020. The photograph is attributed to Antoin Sevruguin and a handwritten number (inked, probably by Antoin Sevruguin) also reads, "143."