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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Antoin Sevruguin, Ice Cream (
Antoin Sevruguin
Ice Cream ("bastani") Vendor, at Maydan-i Mashq in Tehran, 1890
Gelatin silver print
220 mm x 166 mm
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On recto of the print, there is a handwritten number in white ink, probably by Antoin Sevruguin, that reads, '139'. which has been masked with black ink. This is the...
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On recto of the print, there is a handwritten number in white ink, probably by Antoin Sevruguin, that reads, "139". which has been masked with black ink. This is the same number that appears on the print in the same location contained in the Myron Bement Smith Collection.

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The image is reproduced on page 73 of "Sevrugun and the Persian Image, Photographs of Iran, 1870-1930" which was published by the Arthur W. Sackler Gallery and the University of Washington Press.

 

This print is also in the Myron Bement Smith Collection: Antoin Sevruguin Photographs. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Gift of Katherine Dennis Smith, 1973-1985, reference: FSA A.4 2.12.Up.09.

 

This image also appears on Page 70 of "Sevruguin's Iran" published by Barjesteh van Waalwijk van Doorn & Co's Uitgeversmaatschappij in Rotterdam and Zaman Publishers in Tehran. The number "1394" rather than "139" appears in white on recto in the same location..

 

A reproduction of this image is located on page 205 of “Antoin Sevruguin: Past and Present” published by The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in 2020.

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