Northern Indian views and architecture

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JOHN EDWARD SACHÉ
Northern Indian views and architecture
Album of 64 albumen prints. Circa late 1860s - early 1870s. Each approximately 9¼ x 11¼ in. (23.5 x 28.5 cm.). 56 signed Saché and numbered in the negatives, one signed Saché & Murray in the negative, ink manuscript titles and pencil numbers on mounts, maroon leather (disbound), ruled in gilt, g.e.
Album size: 14½ x 17½ in. (36.8 x 45.1 cm.)

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Strong architectural subjects including the Jama Masjid Fort, interior views of the Moti Masjid, King Akbar's Palace, Jahangir's Palace and 'Prince Etmad-Dowlah's tomb' (Itimad-ud-Daulah) in Agra; King Akbar's tomb in Sikandra; street scenes and bazaars in Bareilly; the Well of Knowledge, Burning Ghat, the monkey temple and a Nepalese temple in Benares (Varanasi); an ancient Buddhist tower and detail of this tower in Sarnath; tombs and palaces in Fatehpur Sikri; the Women's Bathing Ghat in Mirzapur; temples in Amritsar; the Begum's tomb and Gooptar temple in Faizabad and Gwalior Fort.

John Edward Saché was a commercial photographer who operated from Rampart Row, Bombay c. 1869. Several members of the Saché family were working as photographers in India from the 1860s onwards.

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