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Lot Essay
Titles include Seven Pagodas; Monolith, Seven Pagodas; Rameswaram; Tanjore Palace Council Chamber; At Tinnevelly; and Madura Palace. The Rameswaram Temple Corridor and several views of Arjuna's Penance, Mamallapuram (illustrated) are also represented.
Capt. Lyon, formerly of the 68th Foot, was a commercial photographer in Ootacamund from c.1865-69. In the late 1860s, he produced over 300 photographs of the ancient monuments of Madras at the request of the Madras and Bombay governments. He resolved the problems of lighting the extremely long corridors in Southern India, some of them as long as 700 feet, by creating banks of reflectors. The work he produced at this time for the survey was exhibited at the Photographic Society of London in 1869, where it was well received.
Capt. Lyon, formerly of the 68th Foot, was a commercial photographer in Ootacamund from c.1865-69. In the late 1860s, he produced over 300 photographs of the ancient monuments of Madras at the request of the Madras and Bombay governments. He resolved the problems of lighting the extremely long corridors in Southern India, some of them as long as 700 feet, by creating banks of reflectors. The work he produced at this time for the survey was exhibited at the Photographic Society of London in 1869, where it was well received.