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Bourne & Shepherd; Burke John ca. 1843-1900; Nicholas & Co.; Scowen & Co.; Skeen & Co.; Pont V.&E. and Others. Album with Forty-Nine Large Albumen Photographs of British India and Ceylon. Ca. 1880s-1890s.
ref. P94Oblong Folio album ca. 275x38 cm. 49 paper leaves. With 49 mounted albumen photographs including 47 larger ones from ca. 235x29 cm 9 ¼ x 11 ½ in to ca. 145x20 cm 5 ½ x 7 ¾ in; and two smaller photos ca. 9x135 cm 3 ½ x 5 ¼ in. Eighteen photos with captions and/or photographers’ stamps and signatures in negative. Period brown half sheep album with cloth boards gilt-tooled with the gilt-lettered initials “A.L.” on the front board; moire endpapers. Photos seemingly mounted at a later date. Mounts slightly waved and crinkled a couple of photos with minor losses on the corners or extremities but overall a very good collection of interesting strong photos. An attractive collection of large albumen studio photos of British India and Ceylon by famous local studios. The photos of India mostly attributed to Bourne and Shepherd show the architecture of Agra Taj Mahal the tomb of Itimad-ud-Daulah Akbar’s tomb Ahmedabad Rani Sipri’s Mosque the Temple of Hathi Singh Lucknow Dikulsha Kothi Kolkata Buddhist Pagoda in the Eden Gardens; there are also views of the Elephanta Caves a train turning on the Agony Point Loop of the Darjeeling-Himalayan Railway a statue of Nandi Bull etc. The other photos show Fort Ali Masjid in the Khyber Pass by John Burke sculptures decorating a Hindu temple by “Nicholas & Co.” a town in Darjeeling with the Himalayas towering in the background hill stations portraits of workers at burning ghats cart drivers girls etc. The photos of Sri Lanka show Colombo Queen Street with the old lighthouse Grand Oriental Hotel hills with tea plantations the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy and portraits of Tamil tea pluckers by “Scowen & Co.” Overall a nice collection of large studio photos of British India and Ceylon. A list of captioned photos: The Taj. Agra. 1080 unsigned but Bourne & Shepherd; 3133. A dunga shikari & kitchen boat; Lucknow the Dikulsha Palace signed “Borne 1149”; Huthi Singh’s Tomb. Ahmedabad. 2236 signed “Bourne & Shepherd 2236”; Ranee Seepika Musjid. Ahmedabad. 2233 signed “Bourne & Shepherd 2233”; Lucknow. View from the terrace of the Hooseinabad Emambara signed “Borne 1051”; The Mausoleum of Akbar. Sekundra. 1251 unsigned but Bourne & Shepherd; Agra. The Mausoleum of Prince Etmad-Dowlah from the Gate signed “Borne 1232”; The Taj from fountain. Agra. 1077 unsigned but Bourne & Shepherd; An Ekka. 1128 signed “B.S.”; Ali Musjid. signed “Burke 28”; Sculptures on a Hindu temple signed “Nicholas & Co. Madras”; Pagoda in Eden Gardens. Calcutta. 1710. signed “B.ourne”; Dalada Maligawa Temple of the Tooth. Kandy signed “Scowen & Co.”; Tamil cooly plucking tea leaf signed “Scowen & Co. Ceylon”; A Fijian landscape with colonial buildings signed “Dufty & Co. Levuka. Fiji”; A view of the Grand Oriental Hotel in Colombo signed “Photographers W.L.H. Skeen & Co. Colombo Ceylon”; The Angel of Cawnpore memorial signed “V. Pont. 69”. hardcover
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