SCOWEN & CO., COLOMBO APOTHECARIES CO.
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SCOWEN & CO., COLOMBO APOTHECARIES CO.

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SCOWEN & CO., COLOMBO APOTHECARIES CO.

Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

Album of 15 albumen prints. 1880. Each approximately 8½ x 11¼ in. (22 x 27.5 cm.) or the reverse, 3 signed and titled in the negatives Scowen & Co., 3 signed in the negatives or with blindstamp of the Colombo Apothecaries Co., the majority titled in pencil in French on mounts, rebound in red cloth, titled and dated in gilt on front cover.

Album size: 12 3/8 x 17 in. (31.4 x 43.2 cm.)
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Lot Essay

The lake and the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, the Perahera annual Buddhist procession, street scenes, forms of transport, a market scene (illus.), portraits of Singhalese, tree studies, tea-picking, the interior of a tea factory and a portrait of a snake-charmer.

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