The number "1443" in white ink appears on recto and the photograph is titled "Dervish" on verso in what may be the hand of Antoin Sevruguin. A gelatin silver print of this image is located in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. The number "1443" has been scratched out and the number "508" in white appears on recto. This is the case with respect to the gelatin silver print of this image in the Nelson collection.
Publications
This image is reproduced on page 41 of "Sevruguin's Iran" published by Barjesteh van Waalwijk van Doorn & Co's Uitgeversmaatschappij in Rotterdam and Zaman Publishers in Tehran. The print is titled: "A Dervish" and the number "1443" also appears on recto.
A gelatin silver print of this image is in the Myron Bement Smith collection located in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Museum. The print has the reference number FSA A.4 2.12.Up.63.
An albumen print of this image is located in the C.R. Smith archive in the V&A collection.
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.
A reproduction of this image is located on page 308 of “Antoin Sevruguin: Past and Present” published by The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in 2020.