JOHN EDWARD SACHE AND OTHERS
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JOHN EDWARD SACHE AND OTHERS

Travels of W.R. Thompson, 86th Royal County Down Regiment, including Gibraltar, South Africa, Mauritius, India and Egypt

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JOHN EDWARD SACHE AND OTHERS
Travels of W.R. Thompson, 86th Royal County Down Regiment, including Gibraltar, South Africa, Mauritius, India and Egypt
Album of approx. 244 albumen prints and one tintype. 1864-68. Varying sizes from 2 3/8 x 1 7/8in. (6 x 4.7cm.) to 7 3/8 x 9 3/8in. (18.9 x 23.6cm.) or reverse. Several credited and/or titled and/or numbered in negatives, including Saché (8); one with blindstamp initials EFD on recto; each titled and a few dated in ink on mounts. Owner's name and date in ink on front free endpaper. Red leather, gilt. In red leather case.
Album size: 9 x 13½in. (25 x 35cm.)
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Gibraltar images include Officers of the 86th Regiment, the Brigade Ground, the Casemate Barracks and Gardiner's Battery. Small tipos populares include bull fighters, peasants, Spanish soldiers, Moorish beggar, Jewess of Morocco and native of Tangier. 10 interesting genre studies with following titles: "Tickets for the Bullfights?", The Letter Writer, The Spinner, El Contrabandista (with blindstamp initials), Moors at Gibraltar (illustrated), The Muleteer Song, Riff Pirates, The Serenade, The Whisper, and Amina.

Images of South Africa include Port Elizabeth after the storm in 1867, camp life of the 86th Regiment, and small portrait types with titles Sandilla Kaffiers, A Kaffir Ford and British Kaffrarina. Images of Mauritius include The Barracks & Signal Station, Port Louis, Peter Botte Mountain, and small studies of Malageish, Hindoo and Avah "types". Sites in India include Benares, Calcutta, Cawnpore, Lucknow, Agra, Delhi and Nynee Tal. Also a formal group portrait of the Amir Sher Ali Khan with General Chamberlain and others, and small portrait types of Moorish women and Cashmere Nautch Girl are included.

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