BAKER'S PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY, NEWLANDS (Calcutta)

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BAKER'S PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY, NEWLANDS (Calcutta)

Portrait of an Indian gentleman in western dress and others, 1847-1850s
Quarter-plate daguerreotype, hand-tinted and with gilt highlights, plain arched-top gilt mount, plush-lined folding morocco case, photographer's gilt credit Baker's Photographic Gallery Calcutta stamped on front cover, gilt clasp;with three other daguerreotype portraits, one half-plate and two quarter-plate, one of the latter attributed to Newlands of Calcutta, each cased. (4)

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A three-quarter figure portrait of a formally dressed gentleman with a moustache, sitting in traditional western pose at a table, his elbow resting on the table beside a book and a top hat. The other sitters are identified as Mrs. Money, née Pulcherie de Bourbel, widow of George Money, a barrister and sometime Standing Counsel to the H.E.I.C. at Calcutta; and two portraits of Emma Patty Barlow, taken at Calcutta in February 1847.