On recto of the print, there is a handwritten number in white ink, probably by Antoin Sevruguin, that reads, "139". This is the same number that appears on the print in the same location contained in the Myron Bement Smith Collection.
Provenance
This photograph forms part of a group that is believed to have belonged to Earl Thomas Crain (1907-1989), an American foreign service officer who was stationed in Iran from 1935. The group of photographs are believed to have been originally acquired by the father of Crain’s wife, Elizabeth Agnes Hildebrand, who was an honorary council for Switzerland in Iran after the first world war.
Publications
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.