COLIN MURRAY for BOURNE & SHEPHERD, SAMUEL BOURNE, CHARLES SHEPHERD, SHEPHERD & ROBERTSON, FRITH'S SERIES, ARNOUX and others

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COLIN MURRAY for BOURNE & SHEPHERD, SAMUEL BOURNE, CHARLES SHEPHERD, SHEPHERD & ROBERTSON, FRITH'S SERIES, ARNOUX and others

India, Sri Lanka, Suez and Malta

Album of 58 albumen prints. 1860s-70s. The majority approximately 9¼ x 11¼ in. (23.5 x 28.5 cm.), signed in the negatives Bourne (8), Bourne & Shepherd (17), Shepherd (1), Shepherd & Robertson (1), Friths Series (3) and Arnoux (1), 4 others with Bourne numbers in the negatives, titled in ink on mounts with updated spellings in pencil, rebound in half maroon leather, g.e.

Album size: 13¾ x 16½ in. (35 x 41.9 cm.)

Literature

See: Desmond, Victorian India in Focus, pl. 61
See: Ollman, Samuel Bourne Images of India, pl. 24
See: Pohlmann, Siegert et al, Samuel Bourne, Sieben Jahre Indien 1863-1870, pp. 10, 78, 182, 194, 218, 228
See: Worswick & Embree, The Last Empire, p. 90

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Lot Essay

Mostly views in Bombay, Poona, Khandala, Simla (including Simla in Winter), Ahmedabad, Sidhpore, Ajmer, Jaipur including The Palace of the Winds, Udaipur, Nainital and of the marble ghat and fort at Rajnagar; with eight portraits titled 'Group of Afreedes from the Khyber Pass', 'Natives of the Darjeeling Hills', 'Cashmere Women', 'Todas, Natives of the Neilgherries', 'Hindoo Woman', 'Nautch Girls', 'A Native Nautch'; 'The Maharajah of Bhurtpore in Durbar'; and a study of the Viceroy's elephants in state trappings.

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