2 cabinet cards portraying women.

11,2 x 16,8 cm (somewhat stained but not on the image, tiny pinholes and one on the image, lower left corner of one of the cards cracked, the same card with printed verso), ms. notes on verso of both cards.

Two portraits by the Tehran born photographer Ivanov (1875/6-1968), son of a Russian Tatar mother and a British father. He became known under the name Roussie-Khan. Early on, Roussie-Khan was an apprentice of Mirza ʻAbd Allah Qajar, but around 1908, along with Mirza Mahdi Khan Musavvar al-Mulk, he founded the Photo Studio of Monsieur Roussie-Khan in the "Ala" al-Dawlah street of Tehran. Both portrayed girls are sitting on the same chair which would suggest they were photographed by the same photographer. Difficult legible stamp on verso of one of the cards "photographier Russe, Roussi-Chane", probably a variation on Roussie-Khan.