Antoin Sevruguin
The Khwaju bridge, Isfahan, Late 19th Century
Albumen print
220 mm x 165 mm
Publications
Titled "Si-o-se Pol bridge over the Zayandeh at Isfahan" with the number "640" in white on recto which does not appear in the photograph in the collection. Attributed to Antoin Sevruguin and located in the travel album by Hendrik Dunlop (1867-1944) with pictures of sights in Persia (Shiraz), Scotland, Germany, Russia, China and Canada.
The album, which forms part of the Rijksmuseum collection, contains 31 pages with a total of 62 photographs with landscape, city, village and harbour views in Scotland, Germany, Russia, China, Canada and especially Iran. Dunlop was a partner of the textile company Groeneweg, Dunlop & Co. and a representative of the Dutch trading company JCP Hotz & Zoon which was located in Shiraz.