The number "475" in white apears on recto. Titled "Kashan" on verso in what may be the hand of Antoin Sevruguin.
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.
Publications
This photograph of a group travelling by mule also appears in the V&A collection and is part of the C.R. Smith archive. The museum number is E.339:36-2010.
Antoin Sevrugion photographs of Persia, 1880s-1890s, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 2017.R.25-64. Titled: "Sur le Khurzan (village)".
A reproduction of this image is located on page 291 of “Antoin Sevruguin: Past and Present” published by The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in 2020. The image is titled "Scene on the road from Teheran to the Caspian Sea".