SCOWEN, DEEN DAYAL, BOURNE, BOURNE & SHEPHERD, NICHOLAS & CO.

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SCOWEN, DEEN DAYAL, BOURNE, BOURNE & SHEPHERD, NICHOLAS & CO.

Mixed Indian and Singhalese travel album

With 74 albumen prints. Circa 1870s - early 1880s. Varying in size from approximately 7¼ x 9¼ in. (18.4 x 23.5 cm.) to approximately 9½ x 11½ in. (24.1 x 29.2 cm.). The majority signed and/or numbered in the negatives including Scowen (2), Deen Dayal (28), Bourne & Shepherd (3), Bourne (16), some also titled in the negatives, tissue guards, half black leather, gilt, g.e.; with an ink manuscript list of subjects loosely inserted.

Album size: 12½ x 15¾ in. (31.7 x 40 cm.) (2)

Literature

See: Falconer, From Bombay to Shanghai, no. 24
See: Falconer et al, A Shifting Focus: Photography in India 1850-1900, p. 65 and 76
See: Sobieszek et al, Masterpieces of Photography from George Eastman House, p. 173

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Lot Essay

Photographs from Bombay, Madras, Ahmedabad, Ajmer, Jaipur, Delhi, Agra, Kanpur, Lucknow, Benares (Varanasi) Calcutta and Darjeeling. Including the Maharaja's gold and silver guns at Baroda (Vadodara); the famous railway loop in Darjeeling and the railway line at Sensation Rock, near Kandy; the tiny telegraph office at Mountabon; the massulah boat at Madras; a fine Parsee group portrait; Nautch dancers at a wedding; burning ghats with bodies at Calcutta and Benares, and other views from Ceylon (Sri Lanka).

See also lot 29 for another study of the Baroda guns.

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