W.G. STRETTON

'Views' of India, circa 1875

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W.G. STRETTON
'Views' of India, circa 1875
Album containing twenty-seven albumen prints, including a two-part panorama, 7¼ x 14½ in., nineteen signed and numbered in the negatives, titled in ink and the majority numbered in pencil on mounts, inscribed Miss Katie C. Mitchell With her Papa & Mama's love May 1877 Calcutta in ink on front blank, half black calf, titled in gilt on front cover, folio.

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Views around Calcutta, the Himalayas, Dalhousie and Amritsar including architectural studies, street scenes, a harbour view with ships (illus.), and a two-part panorama of Calcutta across the Hooghly showing shipping and frontage.
W.G. Stretton advertised himself as a 'marine photographer' and sometimes styled himself as 'Captain'. He operated from a studio in Bombay c. 1870-72 and in Calcutta c. 1875-80.