India, 1860s-1890s

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Samuel Bourne (1834-1912) and Charles Shepherd (fl. 1858-1878), Photographers
India, 1860s-1890s
an album containing 100 photographs, mounted on card album leaves, of street scenes, landscapes, architectural and temple studies, and views of Calcutta, Benares, Cawnpore, Lucknow, Agra, Futtehpore Sikri, Gwalior, Delhi, Lahore, Peshawur, Jeypore, Umbere, Mount Aboo, Ahmedabad, Bombay, Tanjore, Madras, Bijapur, Madura and Darjeeling, including the Taj Mahal, burning and bathing ghats, tea plucking, the Khyber Pass, shipping in the Hooghly, the Elephanta Caves, the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, including the train loop at Chambatta and Ghoom Station, and a view of Mount Everest from Sandakfoo, Darjeeling, the majority numbered and titled, 23 signed 'Bourne', 1 signed 'Shepherd' and 9 signed 'Bourne & Shepherd' in the negative
albumen prints
8 7/8 x 11.1.8in. (22.6 x 28.4cm.) and similar
oblong 2° album, contemporary black roan gilt by Marion & Co., gilt turn-ins, gilt edges, a silver presentation shield mounted on the upper cover engraved 'BOURNE & SHEPHERD'S PRIZE MOZUFFERPORE JANUARY 1896 WON BY MR MARTINS BAY ARAB GELDING "OBAN"'

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拍品專文

An impressive and comprehensive record of India by 'the most prestigious photographic studio in the subcontinent ... This success was not only the product of the technical skills and commercial acumen of its principal photographer but also owed much to Bourne's ability to present a vision of India which conicided with, and reinforced European notions of, a picturesque and exotic East' (John Falconer, DNB).