SKEEN & CO., SCOWEN, ZANGAKI, ARNOUX and G.W.W.

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SKEEN & CO., SCOWEN, ZANGAKI, ARNOUX and G.W.W.

Ceylon, Egypt and Britain, 1870s - early 80s

Album of sixty-two albumen prints, the majority approx. 8½ x 11 in., signed in the negatives Skeen & Co. (8), Scowen (2), Zangaki (9), Arnoux (3), GWW (2), titled in ink or pencil on mounts, signed in pencil F. V. Harper and inscribed in a later hand in ink Collection of Ceylon Views including Poonagalla with Frank Vogan Harper & family... green morocco gilt, g.e., oblong 4to.

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Mostly Ceylon views with a family group including Parker seated outside a bungalow at Cinnamon Gardens, a breakwater ceremony, Singhalese mat weavers, a group of Buddhist priests, buffaloes ploughing, fruit sellers and a Singhalese male portrait.