Fruitsellers
Scowen & Co. (British, active Ceylon, 1876–1895)
c. 1880
- Medium
- Albumen print from glass plate negative
- Classification
- Photograph
- Dimensions
- Image: 20 x 27.2 cm (7 7/8 x 10 11/16 in.); Paper: 20 x 27.2 cm (7 7/8 x 10 11/16 in.); Mounted: 23.1 x 30.3 cm (9 1/8 x 11 15/16 in.)
- Culture
- India, 19th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Photography
- Credit line
- Gift of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Occupational scenes like Fruitsellers were popular subjects in 19th-century colonial photography. Like this image of fruit sellers in colonial Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), such images provided armchair travelers with insight into local life and customs, as seen through European eyes.
