Lot Essay
Approx. three quarters of the photographs show views around India including a panoramic view of 'Mount Abu Raypatane'; the remainder are portrait studies and group portraits of 'Murderers'.
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SAMUEL BOURNE, BOURNE & SHEPHERD, JOHN BURKE, W. BAKER, FRITH SERIES and others
India, 1885
Album containing seventy-two albumen prints, including one two-part panorama, 7¼ x 18 in., other sizes approx. 4 x 5¾ in. to 9 x 11 in. or the reverse, approx. one third signed and several numbered and/or titled in the negatives, two with photographer's blind stamp Frith Series on recto, variously mounted, titled in ink on mounts, inscribed H.P.G.J. India 1885 in a later hand in ink on front blank, disbound, large 4to.
India, 1885
Album containing seventy-two albumen prints, including one two-part panorama, 7¼ x 18 in., other sizes approx. 4 x 5¾ in. to 9 x 11 in. or the reverse, approx. one third signed and several numbered and/or titled in the negatives, two with photographer's blind stamp Frith Series on recto, variously mounted, titled in ink on mounts, inscribed H.P.G.J. India 1885 in a later hand in ink on front blank, disbound, large 4to.