# Fruitsellers

- By: Scowen & Co. (British, active Ceylon, 1876–1895)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.40)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.40/2018.40_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.