SAMUEL BOURNE, BOURNE & SHEPHERD, and JOHNSTON & HOFFMANN

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SAMUEL BOURNE, BOURNE & SHEPHERD, and JOHNSTON & HOFFMANN

India, including portraits of British royalty, 1860s-70s

Album containing 152 albumen prints including 100 cartes-de-visite and 27 cabinet cards, seven heavily hand-coloured, other sizes approx. 5½ x 8 1/8 in. to 8 7/8 x 11½ in., occasional signatures and numbers in the negatives, one cabinet card autographed Harriet Dufferin & Ava in ink on recto, photographers' printed credits on mounts, the cartes and cabinet cards inserted in window mounts, five-per-page, several identified in pencil on mounts, full brown morocco (part disbound), gilt clasps, g.e., oblong 4to.

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Including several portraits of King Edward VII and his entourage, Queen Victoria, Princess Alexandra, several portraits of Indian royalty including the Marharajah of Faridkote, the Marharanee Jumabai of Baroda, the Nizam of Hyderabad, the Maharajah of Jaipur, the Rajah of Chumba, the Princess of Tanjore; a portrait of Lord Napier of Magdala; portraits of the Jacobs family and Lady Dufferin, founder of the Dufferin Hospital in Calcutta; views of the King's encampment, an image of an elephant with his legs bound, the Royal Yacht, snow scenes and a view of a royal parade.

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