SAMUEL BOURNE, BOURNE & SHEPHERD, JOHN EDWARD SACHÉ and others

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SAMUEL BOURNE, BOURNE & SHEPHERD, JOHN EDWARD SACHÉ and others

Views and architectural studies around India and Burma, 1860s-70s
Album containing sixty-two albumen prints, sizes approx. 7 x 12 in. to 9¼ x 11¼ in. or the reverse, the majority signed and numbered in the negatives, all but twelve titled in ink on mounts, full blue morocco, ruled in gilt on front cover, g.e., oblong 4to.

Literature

Worswick and Embree, The Last Empire, p. 131 (illus.); Ollman, Samuel Bourne, pl. 15; Hambourg, Apraxine et al., The Waking Dream, pp. 304-5, no. 105

Exhibited

New York, The Asia House Gallery, The Last Empire, Photography in British India, 1855-1911, 1976.

Lot Essay

The majority are topographical views around India including snow scenes in the Himalayan mountains; views of the caves at Ajunta, Bombay; river views; 'Marble Ghat at Rajnugzer'; Jain temple at Mt. Aboo; Rock of Trichinopoly; views around Nynee Tal, Mussoorie, and Jaipur; approx. seven views around Burma and a group portrait of musicians.

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