DR. W. H. PIGOU, A. C. B. NEILL ESQ. and COL. R. A. BIGGS

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DR. W. H. PIGOU, A. C. B. NEILL ESQ. and COL. R. A. BIGGS

Architecture in Dharwar and Mysore, London: John Murray, 1866

Volume comprising 100 photographs including frontispiece and title page vignette, albumen prints from waxed paper negatives, 8 x 6¼ in. to 11 x 15½ in., fifteen signed Biggs in the negatives, mounted on two-tone card with printed title labels, printed title page, preface, contents, list of illustrations, an historical and descriptive memoir by Colonel Meadows Taylor, M.R.I.A., F.R.G.S.I... and architectural notes by James Fergusson, F.R.S., M.R.A.S., half morocco (worn), titled in gilt on spine, folio.

Literature

Worswick & Embree, The Last Empire, p. 6; Pare, Photography and Architecture 1839-1939, p. 250, pl. 87.

Lot Essay

The Bombay Government first appointed Biggs in 1854-5 to photograph the Muslim monuments and sculpture at Bijapur and Ahmedabad, Western India. The project was delayed by the mutiny of 1857 and was continued by Pigou, who died during the course of the work. Biggs subsequently continued, aided by Neill who worked in Mysore. Two volumes of photographs were published in 1866, the second titled Architecture at Beejapoor. Of the 100 photographs in Dharwar & Mysore, sixty were by Pigou.

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