JOHN EDWARD SACHÉ

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JOHN EDWARD SACHÉ

Military subjects, portrait studies and views around Calcutta, circa late 1860s-70s

Forty-three albumen prints, one 6½ x 5 in., the remainder approx. 7½ x 10½ in. to 9 x 11½ in. or the reverse, approx. half signed Saché or Saché & Murray and/or numbered in the negatives, one titled My Portable Black Room in pencil on recto, others titled and/or numbered in pencil on verso, one mounted on card, signed Photo by Saché and titled in ink on mount, three matted. (43)

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Comprising one image of the photographer's dark room tent (illus.), a view titled 'Saché & his camp, 13,000 feet high Dec. 1869 at [?]Oagunda. 7 miles from the Glac.', and two views of the tombstone for Saché's wife, who died of cholera in 1871 at the age of 27; group portraits of 'Hill women', native servants, croquet players; portraits of a postman and a carpenter; military subjects including canons, views of forts, the Army Artillery in formation at Secunderabad, a group portrait titled 'Pioneers officers'; and several architectural studies and landscape views around Calcutta.

John Edward Saché was a commercial photographer who operated from Rampart Row, Bombay c. 1869. Several members of the Saché family were working as photographers in India from the 1860s onwards. It is not known when Saché & Murray worked together however it is likely that this refers to the same Colin Murray who joined Bourne & Shepherd in 1870 and became chief photographer after Bourne returned to England.