Sinhalese Man
Scowen & Co. (British, active Ceylon, 1876–1895)
or Skeen & Co. (British, active 1860–1920)
c. 1880s
- Medium
- albumen print
- Classification
- Photograph
- Dimensions
- Image: 14.1 x 9.1 cm (5 9/16 x 3 9/16 in.); Paper: 14.1 x 9.4 cm (5 9/16 x 3 11/16 in.)
- Culture
- India, 19th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Photography
- Credit line
- Purchase from the Karl B. Goldfield Trust
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The gentleman sports a Western jacket and shirt, but his distinctive hairstyle identifies him as Sinhalese, a people originally from northern India who now form the majority of the population of Sri Lanka.
