Where? And more exact date? Guessing late 19th? Guy is Buddhist and looks potentially Tibetan so I’m putting my guess for southern Gansu or Qinghai ;)
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Beijing, some time in the 1870s or 1880s. I suppose by the nature of him being a traveller with a whole caravan of camels, he's more likely than most to be very far from home
Thanks for that link!
Duke University has a similarly cool collection from the same period.
Beijing makes sense too. Plenty of Tibetans there.