Portraits from Nagaland and Manipur with views from the border lands between India and Burma, circa 1870s
Sixty-six albumen prints, sizes approx. 3¼ x 2 7/8 in. to 9 1/8 x 10 7/8 in., variously mounted on loose album pages.
(a lot)
來源
Previously in the collection of Gen. Sir Mowbray Thomson (1832-1917), who served with the Bengal Infantry from 1853. He was the author of The Story of Cawnpore (London 1859). For other photographs with the same provenance see also lots 372 and 380.
拍品專文
Including several group portraits of natives in traditional dress, villagers, a group of spearmen, studies of native types and several river views and landscape studies.