In 1854-55 Capt. Biggs, of the Bombay Artillery, was appointed first official photographer to the Bombay Presidency. As a member of the Bombay Photographic Society he had been given a set of Ross's single and double lenses and a kit which enabled him to make 15 x 12 inch pictures. His task was to photograph buildings, sculpture and inscriptions of Western India, a project which was delayed by the Mutiny in 1857 and finally completed with the help of Dr. W.H. Pigou and A.C.B. Neill. Two volumes of photographs were published in 1866, Architecture in Dharwar and Mysore and Architecture at Beejapoor, an ancient Mahometan capital in the Bombay Presidency. See lot 278.