India, Egypt, Malta and Europe

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SAMUEL BOURNE, JOHN SACHE AND OTHERS
India, Egypt, Malta and Europe
Album of approx. 190 albumen prints. 1869-74. Varying sizes from 3 7/8 x 3½in. (9.7 x 8.7cm.) to 14 x 12 1/8in. (36 x 30.5cm.) or reverse; one 3-part panorama of Malta, 7 x 31½in. (19 x 80cm.) Several signed and/or numbered in negatives, including Bourne (2), Saché (3), W. Carrey (5) and G.T. Sparke (4); majority captioned and/or dated in ink and/or pencil on mounts. Approx. 30 loosely inserted in pre-cut corners. With 2 loose albumen prints, one signed Ellis, titled and dated in negative. Annotated with owner's name Logan Home of Broomhouse D... Berwickshire in pencil on front pastedown. Maroon leather, gilt.
Album size: 18¼ x 20½in. (46.2 x 52cm.)

Provenance

This album was compiled by Lt. William James Logan-Home who was born in 1847 and died at the young age of 28 in Simla. He appears in three group portraits with other Royal Engineers officers taken in Simla and Delhi in 1872, just three years before his death. One of these is captioned My signalling class at Simla. At his death, it would appear that the album was passed down to his younger brother George John Ninian Logan-Home (b.1855) who became the 13th Laird of Broomhouse, then later to his daughter Margaret Annie. In the album, the image of the Auberge of Castille in Valetta, Malta, which was the military headquarters of the Army during the British occupation, is annotated by Annie, The Palace in which I was born.

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Descriptif du lot

Images of India (56) include Nynee Tal, Kumaun taken by Saché (illustrated); Simla; Himalayas, taken mostly by Bourne; Delhi; Agra, including the Taj Mahal; military camps, Punjab; and four prints of Himalayan trophies, including tigers, Tibetan gazelles, snow bears and ibex. Images of Egypt (20) include harbour scenes, Alexandria, entrance to the Suez Canal, and small-scale portrait types. Those of Malta (8) include a 3-part panorama of Valetta and harbour scenes.

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