Antoin Sevruguin
Money dealers (Saraf) and guards next to the gate at Khiaban Nasseriyeh, Late 19th Century, early 20th Century
Gelatin silver print
224 mm x 164 mm
A negative number “110' in white ink appears on recto in what may be the hand of Antoin Sevruguin. The number is found in the same position on the gelatin...
A negative number “110" in white ink appears on recto in what may be the hand of Antoin Sevruguin. The number is found in the same position on the gelatin silver print in the Smithsonian Institution.
Publications
A gelatin silver print of the image is in the Myron Bement Smith Collection. FSA.A.04. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.. and was a gift of Katherine Dennis Smith. The glass negative has a reference of FSA.A.04, Item FSA A.4 2.12.Up.47.
A reproduction of this image (museum no: 3275) appears on page 73 of "Sevruguin's Iran" published by Barjesteh van Waalwijk van Doorn & Co's Uitgeversmaatschappij in Rotterdam and Zaman Publishers in Tehran.
This image is attributed to Antoin Sevruguin and appears in the "History of Photography and Pioneer Photographers in Iran "by Yahya Zoka. Published in 1997 by Offset Press Inc., Tehran.