Fruitsellers
Medium
Albumen print from glass plate negative
Dimensions
image: 20 × 27.2 cm · mounted: 23.1 × 30.3 cm
Classification
Photograph
Department
Photography
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer
Accession Number
2018.40
Tags
male
About this artwork
Occupational scenes like Fruitsellers were popular subjects in 19th-century colonial photography. Like this image of fruit sellers in colonial Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), such images provided armchair travelers with insight into local life and customs, as seen through European eyes.