Tibetan musician
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241 x 293 mm. Half length portrait of a Tibetan musician. This photograph, by Dr. (later Sir) Benjamin Simpson was exhibited in the 1872 exhibition of the Bengal Photographic Society under the title of 'A wandering minstrel'. See: Falconer, J (198?), 'Ethnographical photography in India 1850-1900', 'The Photographic Collector', volume 5, no. 1, pp.16-46. Photograph taken circa 1872.