CHINTAMON, BOURNE & SHEPHERD, RITTER MOLKENTELLER & CO., BYRAMJEE, PATELL, CAPLAIN, LAMBERT & CO. and others

Indian and Nepalese portrait studies, 1860s-70s

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CHINTAMON, BOURNE & SHEPHERD, RITTER MOLKENTELLER & CO., BYRAMJEE, PATELL, CAPLAIN, LAMBERT & CO. and others
Indian and Nepalese portrait studies, 1860s-70s
Album containing forty-eight cartes-de-visite, several with printed photographer's credit on mounts, the majority with photographer's printed credit and occasional titles in pencil on verso, loosely inserted in later album with pre-cut oval and arched top window mounts with gilt borders, a few identified in ink on paper labels loosely inserted, printed floral title page, embossed brown morocco with palmette design in gilt on front cover, clasp missing, g.e., 8vo.; with forty-nine loose cartes, many copied from painted portraits.

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Portraits of water-carriers (illus.), fruit-sellers, shop-keepers, men working with tools, a Malay woman, 'Bakadoor of Nepaul', the Raja of Rewa, the Maharaja Hyderali, and the Maharaja Crithvisinghji (illus.).

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