SKEEN & CO.

Ceylon, 1870s-80s

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SKEEN & CO.
Ceylon, 1870s-80s
Album containing seventy-seven albumen prints, 5 x 3 in. to 8 x 11 in. or the reverse, the majority numbered and/or titled and with photographer's credit in the negatives, numbered in pencil on mounts, printed label Photographs of Ceylon Scenery Published by W.S.H. Skeen & Co. (Photographers, & c.) 41 Chatham St., Colombo. mounted on front free end, manuscript list of titles loosely inserted, half black morocco, silver monogram HLM mounted to front cover, g.e., folio.

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Comprising several river and harbour views, village scenes, a still life with fruit (illus.), four tree studies; several costume and portrait studies including one of a Kandyan chief, six of Singhalese girls, Buddhist monks, snake-charmers, a man with a bullock cart, a fruit-seller, a musician; and a few architectural studies and details of temples.

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