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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Antoin Sevruguin, The Peacock throne of the Gulistan Palace, Tehran, Late 19th Century, early 20th Century
Antoin Sevruguin
The Peacock throne of the Gulistan Palace, Tehran, Late 19th Century, early 20th Century
Gelatin silver print
166 mm x 226 mm
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A negative number “267” in white ink appears on recto in what may be the hand of Antoin Sevruguin. A negative number “436” also appears on recto. Both numbers have...
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A negative number “267” in white ink appears on recto in what may be the hand of Antoin Sevruguin. A negative number “436” also appears on recto. Both numbers have been masked with darker ink. Both numbers are found in the same positions as the glass negative in the Smithsonian Institution.

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A glass negative of the image is in the Myron Bement Smith Collection. FSA.A.04. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.. and was a gift of Katherine Dennis Smith. The glass negative has a reference of FSA.A.04, Item FSA A.4 2.12.GN.35.10.

 

An albumen print of this image is located in the V&A collection and forms part of the C.R. Smith archieve and is titled: "Throne of H.M. Shah of Persia".

 

Page 57 of “The Eye of the Shah Qajar Court Photography and the Persian Past” published by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University. Collection of Azita Bina and Elmar W. Seibel and titled: “Peacock throne, Golestan Palace, Tehran”.

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