CAPT. EDMUND DAVID LYON (d. 1891) and others

Indian and Italian landscapes, circa 1860s

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CAPT. EDMUND DAVID LYON (d. 1891) and others
Indian and Italian landscapes, circa 1860s
Album containing approx. eighty-eight albumen prints, approx. seventy views in India and eighteen in Italy, sizes approx. 5¼ x 3.7/8 in. to 9.1/8 x 11.3/8 in., some with printed titles on the mounts, others with manuscript titles in pencil, blue half-leather, 14¼ x 11½ in.

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Capt. Lyon formerly of the 68th Foot, was a commercial photographer in Ootacamund from c. 1865 - 69. In the late 1860s he produced over 300 photographs of the ancient monuments of Madras at the request of the Madras and Bombay Governments. He resolved the problems of lighting the extremely long corridors in Southern India, some of them as long as seven hundred feet, by creating banks of reflectors.

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