Ignacy Krieger studio (Krakow, Poland)
1870 (ca)
Studio portrait of a Polish man, standing, wearing a heavy coat, described in a handwritten note on the reverse by Arthur Evans as being 'to [his] mind a strongly Finnish type'.

Carte de visite
Pitt Rivers Museum
Joan Evans - Donated August 1941, 1941.8.162
 
Ignacy Krieger studio (Krakow, Poland), labelled 'J. Krieger'
 
Research Notes
Research Notes - Ignacy Krieger (1817-1889) - who signed his cartes de visite 'J. Krieger, Krakow' - has been described as Krakow's most outstanding photographer of the mid- to late nineteenth century; his son Natan Krieger (1841-1903) also became a photographer: http://www.scheufler.cz/en-CZ/photohistory/photoarchive,people-in-poland-ca-1870,52.html (accessed 30 January 2013). [PG 30/01/2013]
 
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