SAMUEL BOURNE, A.T.W. PENN, SKEEN & CO. and others

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SAMUEL BOURNE, A.T.W. PENN, SKEEN & CO. and others

Landscape and architectural studies in India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

Album of 59 albumen prints including 2 mounted as a panorama. 1870s-90s. Approximately 8½ x 11½ in. (21.5 x 29.2 cm.) or the reverse, the panorama approximately 8¼ x 22½ in. (21 x 57.2 cm.) Several signed, titled and numbered in the negatives, titled in ink and several with extensive manuscript captions on mounts, half leather, ruled in gilt, g.e.

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Views around Tanjore (Thanjavur), Trichinopoly (Tiruchirapalli), Madurai, the Nilgiri Hills, Bijapur, Madras, 'Bijanagar (Vijayanagara) including the statue of Nara-singh-avatar, canopied by the Snake Sesha (illus.)', Kandy, Anaradhapura, an unusual two-part panoramic view of the 'Railway Bridge at Sukker over the Indus', a group portrait titled 'Toda Hut Nilghirry Hills', 'Elephant stables, Bijanagar', a view of a ladies' bath, a panoramic view of Vijayanagara mounted over three pages, and views of Buddhist funerary mounds (dagobas) in Ceylon.

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