Details
W. DUMERGUE and another
'The Car Festival in Southern India - Prize Picture', circa early 1870s; 'Kombakonum: The Mahamakam Tank', circa 1860s-70s
Two albumen prints, the first 9 5/8 x 7¾ in., mounted on album leaf, signed, titled and inscribed in ink on mount with pencil reference number relating to membership of the Amateur Photographic Association, another photograph mounted on verso, matted; the second 7 x 9 in., mounted on paper, printed title on mount, matted.
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Literature
Worswick & Embree, The Last Empire, pl. 68, there described as Calcutta; Pal and Dehejia, From Merchants to Emperors, pl. 223.
Exhibited
New York, The Asia House Gallery, The Last Empire, Photography in British India, 1855-1911, 1976; New York, The Morgan Library and Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, From Merchants to Emperors, British Artists and India, 1757-1930, 1986-87.
