Lot Essay
Including studies of the following trees: Giant Bamboo, Rubber Tree, Cactus Tree, Talipot Palm in bloom, the Giant Fir, 'Coco-de-mere, Seychelle Island Palm', Palmyra Palm, and the Coconut Palm.
Details
W.L.H. SKEEN & CO.
Tree studies, Ceylon, circa 1880s
Eleven albumen prints, each approx. 11 x 8½ in. or the reverse, six with photographers' blindstamp Photographers W.L.H. Skeen & Co...Ceylon on recto, titled in pencil on verso, loosely inserted in pre-cut slits on thin card mounts, each with typed title on mount. (11)
Tree studies, Ceylon, circa 1880s
Eleven albumen prints, each approx. 11 x 8½ in. or the reverse, six with photographers' blindstamp Photographers W.L.H. Skeen & Co...Ceylon on recto, titled in pencil on verso, loosely inserted in pre-cut slits on thin card mounts, each with typed title on mount. (11)
Literature
Worswick & Embree, The Last Empire Photography in British India 1855-1911, New York: Aperture Inc., 1976, p. 93 (illus.) where attributed to Scowen.
Exhibited
New York, The Asia House Gallery, The Last Empire Photography in British India, 1855-1911, 1976.