SAMUEL BOURNE, SCOWEN & CO., RUST, PHILLIPS, SACHÉ and others

India and Ceylon, 1870s-90s

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SAMUEL BOURNE, SCOWEN & CO., RUST, PHILLIPS, SACHÉ and others
India and Ceylon, 1870s-90s
Sixty albumen prints including four mounted as two two-part panoramas, 8 x 21 in., sizes from 4¾ x 7 in. to 9½ x 11½ in. or the reverse, several signed and/or numbered in the negatives, a few titled in pencil on verso, the majority mounted on card, several titled and/or dated in ink/pencil on mounts, in grey cloth covered box. (57)

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Portraits of 'Hill Coolies', villageers, snake-charmers, bathers in Calcutta near the Howrah Bridge, workers in a tea factory, 'dandy bearers'; group portraits of women and girls at the free church, officers of the N.W.R. Volunteer Rifles - Lahore and an image of a man laying a wrapped body in the water with pyres burning behind him; views around Darjeeling, Karachi, Lahore, Delhi, Bengal, and Bombay including mountain views, street scenes and landscape studies.

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