Antoin Sevruguin
A fruit salesman, Late 19th Century
Gelatin silver print
224 mm x 165 mm
The number '105' in white ink appears on recto in what may be the hand of Antoin Sevruguin.
The number "105" in white ink appears on recto in what may be the hand of Antoin Sevruguin.
Provenance
This photograph forms part of a group that is believed to have belonged to Earl Thomas Crain (1907-1989), an American foreign service officer who was stationed in Iran from 1935. The group of photographs are believed to have been originally acquired by the father of Crain’s wife, Elizabeth Agnes Hildebrand, who was an honorary council for Switzerland in Iran after the first world war.
Publications
A reproduction of this image is located on page 215 of “Antoin Sevruguin: Past and Present” published by The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in 2020.The number "1397" in white ink appears on recto in what may be the hand of Antoin Sevruguin.