The albumen print carries the caption 'Bastinado. Tailor's Workroom'. Secondary documentation tells that the photograph was taken in Rasht, northern Iran. Rasht was the centre of embroidered felt patchwork, rashti-duzi.
See also a tent panel from Rasht, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Sources:
- BOHRER, Frederick N. (ed.; 1999), Sevruguin and the Persian Image. Photographs of Iran, 1870-1930. Washington DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.
- HARRIS, Russell and Isabel MILLER (2011), 'The Sevruguin photographs,' Asian Art (February 2011), pp. 6-7.
- VENES, Melanie, and WEARDEN, Jennifer, 'A Persian venture,' Hali 148 (2006), pp. 60-61.
V&A online catalogue (retrieved 16 May 2016)
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