SAMUEL BOURNE, CHARLES SHEPHERD and SHEPHERD & ROBERTSON

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SAMUEL BOURNE, CHARLES SHEPHERD and SHEPHERD & ROBERTSON

The Sutlej Indian Groups &c.

Album of 79 albumen prints. 1860s. 31 approximately 7 x 8¾ in. (17.9 x 22.2 cm.), the remainder approximately 9½ x 11½ in. (24.2 x 29.2 cm.). 15 of the smaller photographs and 2 of the larger signed in the negatives Shepherd & Robertson, the majority of the remainder numbered and/or signed Bourne in the negatives, titled in ink on mounts, half green leather by Marion & Co., gilt, titled in gilt on leather label on front cover, gilt clasp, g.e.

Album size: 13½ x 20 in. (34.3 x 50.8 cm.)

来源

Samuel Bourne;
unknown owner/owners;
Sotheby's London, Photographs, 8 May 1992, lot 31 (part lot)

出版

See: Dehejia et al, India Through the Lens, p. 177
See: Pohlmann, Siegert et al, Samuel Bourne, Sieben Jahre Indien 1863-1870, pp. 30, 62, 63, 78, 79, 191, 195 (bottom image)
See: Worswick & Embree, The Last Empire, pp. 42 and 94

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拍品专文

Fine views of the Sutlej river, taken on Bourne's first Himalayan trip in 1863; the temple at Chergoan; tree and forest studies; the Wanga Valley including one prize picture 1863-64 (no. 279); the Spiti mountain range; Kangra, including the bridge and fort; Dhurmsala (Dharamshala), Dalhousie, 'the Kholee'; and five views at Chamba. Other subjects include the Viceroy's elephants in their state trappings and Sir Robert Montgomery's camel carriages. Thirty-nine of the photographs are portraits or studies of "types" and include a group of Sir J. Lawrence and Council, a picnic at Ootacamund, dated 1869, and a wedding group at Simla, dated 1870. Indian portrait subjects include fakirs, Brahmins, Delhi bankers, Mahomed Khan the Ambassador to Kabul, a group of Kabulese, Afredees at the Khyber Pass, the Grand Llama of Tibet, snake-charmers, acrobats, hermaphrodites, 'thugs', the Nawab of Rampur, gold lace-makers and a goldsmith, 'rajpoots', a Dhobi washerman ironing (illus.) and another servant pouring tea.