SAMUEL BOURNE and BOURNE & SHEPHERD

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SAMUEL BOURNE and BOURNE & SHEPHERD

India, circa 1865-69

Album containing fifty albumen prints including two mounted back-to-back on an album page loosely inserted, each approx. 9¼ x 11½ in., the majority signed Bourne (30), Bourne & Shepherd (1), and Shepherd (1) and numbered in the negatives, titled in ink on mounts, paper guards, full red morocco, re-lined, ruled in gilt, g.e., large oblong 4to.

Literature

Ollman, Samuel Bourne. Images of India, pl. nos. 2, 6, 13; Worswick, The Last Empire, pp. 16, 61, 98 (illus.); and Desmond, Victorian India in Focus, p. 5 (illus.), pl. nos. 55, 68.

Exhibited

New York, The Asia House Gallery, The Last Empire, Photography in British India, 1855-1911, 1976.

Lot Essay

A fine album mainly of views around Darjeeling, Jubbulpore, Muree, Simla, Kulu, several views around Kashmir, a view on the Ceylon railway, mountain views in the Ganges; architectural studies and group portraits including the 'Shooting party in Camp - Kashmir', 'Group of Afredees from the Khyber Pass', Kashmir women, 'Coolies', and a group portrait of 'A Maharaja with Ministers and Suite'.

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