SAMUEL BOURNE, BOURNE & SHEPHERD

Historic and contemporary architecture, views and portraits, circa 1860s-70s

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SAMUEL BOURNE, BOURNE & SHEPHERD
Historic and contemporary architecture, views and portraits, circa 1860s-70s
Album of forty-eight photographs, albumen prints, each approx. 7¼ x 12¼ in., or 9 x 11½ in., the majority signed and/or with photographers' reference number in the negative, titled in pencil on mounts, contemporary brown morocco, ruled gilt, g.e., oblong large 4to.

Literature

Haworth-Booth et al, The Golden Age of British Photography 1839 - 1900, p. 109 (illus.)

Lot Essay

Bombay and environs including the Elephanta Caves and recently completed government buildings; 'Bore Ghant' railway; ancient sites at Tanjore and Trichinopoly; Benares, Lucknow (the Gateway of Hooseinabad Bayar illus.) Delhi, Agra, Secundra, Gwalior, Deig, Guverdhun and Muttra; two photographs of Nautch dancers; and a study of the Viceroy's elephants in state trappings.

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