Signed by Abdullah Mirza Qajar on verso.
On recto a a statement in French states that the image is of the first rsidence of Fabius Boital. Mr Boital was a French engineer, who in 1886 received a concession from Naṣer-al-Din Shah to build a six mile railway from the capital Tehran to the Shrine of Šāh ʿAbd-al-ʿAẓim. In addition, Boital received a concession for the construction of tramways in Tehran. He then sold these concessions a year later to a Belgian company named “La Société Anonyme des Chemins de Fer et Tramways en Perse”.
Literature
An albumen print of this image appears on page 35 of the Nafisi Family Photograph Album (2nd) located in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (Gift of Azar Nafisi in honor of Massumeh Farhad). The reference number for the album is FSA A2010.05 2.