SKEEN, DOUFFET and others

Ceylon & Singapore, 1870s and 80s

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SKEEN, DOUFFET and others
Ceylon & Singapore, 1870s and 80s
Album containing sixty-two albumen prints, four inscribed Skeen in pencil, one signed in the negative, eight inscribed Douffet in pencil, 2.3/8 x 3½ in. to 8.1/8 x 11 in., titled on mount, blue cloth gilt, 14¾ x 11 in.

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A diverse album including portraits of the Kandy Royal Family, urban and rural scenes of Ceylon, two botanical studies of native vegetation, group and individual portraits of coffee plantation workers, group school portraits from Southern India and various examples of religious and merchant "types"

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