Signed Photograph of Rabindranath Tagore from Ananda Coomaraswamy`s Collection

Signed ''Rabindranath Tagore'' in black ink below the image

Circa 1930s

Carbon prints

Image size: 13.25 x 9.5 in (33.7 x 24 cm)
Sheet size: 16 x 11.7 in (40 x 29.3 cm)
Mounted on original green paper folder of size 19 x 13 in (48.2 x 33 cm)

A similar photograph is in the permanent collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Zlata Llamas (Dona Luisa Coomaraswamy), American (born Argentina), worked as a society photographer under the professional name Xlata Llamas and was the third wife of Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy.

Carbon prints are usually richer and more intense than albumen prints. This high quality black and white photograph has been highlighted in black in the background bringing out excellent tonal values. They were more popular in Europe than in America, and were often used to reproduce artworks, and for book illustrations.