LALA DEEN DAYAL & SONS
LALA DEEN DAYAL & SONS

'A Souvenir from Nawab Sir Asman Jah, Hyderabad (Deccan), 1895'

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LALA DEEN DAYAL & SONS
'A Souvenir from Nawab Sir Asman Jah, Hyderabad (Deccan), 1895'
Album of photographs, albumen prints, sixty two approx. 12 x 9 in. or the reverse, six approx. 6 x 8 in. and two two-part panoramas, approx. 7 x 22 in. and 9 x 20 in., printed title labels with photographers' reference number, rebound, original half leather (incomplete) laid down on front and back covers, titled in gilt and with photographers' credit Lala Deen Dayal & Sons, Secunderabad on front cover, oblong folio.

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A presentation album with several portraits of the Nawab (prince) including two equestrian portraits and two with his young son 'Khaja Moin-ud-deen Saheb, The Sahebzadah'; 'Dossabhoy Nusserwanjee', the A.D.C. and Private Secretary; group portraits of the Nawab with his staff; officers of the Paigah Troops; The Duke and Duchess of Connaught with the Nizam, Minister and Party; Prince Albert Victor and the Nizam posed on the steps leading to the prince's bagh (garden); a group including Mr. Howell before his departure for England holding a gift from Prince Bahadur for the Duke of Fife; Sir Denis Fitzpatrick and party at various locations with the Nawab; the audience including Lord Roberts at the Bashirbagh Theatre; a banquet for the Grand Dukes of Russia; party guests in formal group portraits; Sir Asman Jah at the opening ceremony of the Corn and Oil Mills and at the Golconda Shawl Factory; five smaller studies of the Nawab with tigers he has shot and another with rabbits; several views of the Bashirbagh Palace including eight interiors (two of the Fern House); Saroonagar Palace including three interiors; other palaces and dwellings; and Sir Asman Jah reviewing troops including two panoramas.

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