Lot 106
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W. DUMERGUE and others
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W. DUMERGUE and others

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W. DUMERGUE and others

The Car Festival in Southern India Prize Picture; and two others similar

Albumen print. 1860s - early 70s. Mounted on album leaf with photographer's credit and title in ink and Amateur Photographic Association membership reference number in pencil on mount, mounted back-to-back with another photograph; with two other albumen prints, each mounted on card, titled Juggernat Car and Juggernauth Car on mounts, one mounted back-to-back with another photograph.

9½ x 7¾ in. (24.1 x 19.7 cm.); each approximately 6½ x 8½ in. (16.5 x 21.6 cm.) (3)
Provenance
The Paul F. Walter Collection
Literature
Pal and Dehejia, From Merchants to Emperors, pl.223
Exhibited
New York, The Morgan Library and Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, From Merchants to Emperors, British Artists and India, 1757-1930, 1986-87
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Lot Essay

Dumergue was a member of the Amateur Photographic Association, an organisation which flourished from the early 1860s into the 1870s. The majority of the membership was British, with several members working abroad. Members contributed prints which were then circulated in albums to other members in a traditional exchange system.

See also lot 27 for other photographs by members of the Amateur Photographic Association.

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