WILLIAM LOUIS HENRY SKEEN & CO. and others

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WILLIAM LOUIS HENRY SKEEN & CO. and others

'Photographic Views of Ceylon, Penang, Sumatra & Singapore', circa 1860s-70s

Album containing seventy albumen prints, sizes approx. 5¼ x 3¾ in. to 8½ x 11 in. or the reverse, two with blindstamp W.L.H. Skeen & Co. Colombo Ceylon on recto, titled in ink on mounts, occasional tissue guards, full maroon morocco, titled and ruled in gilt on front cover and titled again in gilt on spine, g.e., oblong 4to.

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Including views in Colombo, Kandy, Wackwelle, Galle and Bangkod; villages, architectural studies, street scenes and rivers; several portrait studies including royalty, a Buddhist priest, a 'Manilla girl'; native Singhalese standing in front of a waterfall in Penang; hunters with their servants and guns on a river in Sumatra; a Malay princess; a young Siamese princess with her dolls; H. H. the Maharaja of Jahore; a portrait titled 'Si-Hung-Chang'; a study of the King of Siam's palace; six views of Singapore including Commercial Square; and fourteen portrait and genre studies taken in China.

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