'India', 1857-1860s

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FELICE BEATO, SAMUEL BOURNE, JOHN EDWARD SACHÉ
'India', 1857-1860s
Album containing twenty-four albumen prints including one loosely inserted, four 4¼ x 7 in. to 6 x 9 in., other sizes approx. 8½ x 11½ in. to 12 x 10 in. or the reverse, seven signed Bourne and nineteen numbered in the negatives, fifteen titled in ink and seven titled, dated and numbered on printed series labels on mounts, half black morocco, titled India and ruled in gilt on front cover, folio.

拍品专文

The fourteen images which are titled in ink on the mounts are by Samuel Bourne and several are rare early subjects including six Himalayan views titled 'Himalayan Deo-dars. The larger one 36ft. in circumference', 'View on the Sutlej' (2), 'View on the Sutlej at Wangtu', and 'The Wanga Valley' (2); a view of Simla as seen from Jako, 'Bungalow at Chini', 'Officers & men of the 23rd Panjab N.I. (Pioneers) at Tarenda' and two views of Lahore. Also including group portraits of the Council of India by Saché and 'The Lieut. Gov. of the Panjab (Sir R. Montgomery) in his Camel Equipage'.

Seven views around Lucknow after the Mutiny by Beato are titled as follows: 'The Dilkoosha Palace - First Attack of Sir Colin Campbell in November, 1857; Second Attack, 2nd March', 'The Martiniere Braysyer's Sikhs...', 'The Begum Kotie...', 'The Tomb of Saadat Ali in the Kaiserbagh Palace...', 'Mosque inside Asph-ood-Dowla's Emambara - now used as an Hospital', 'Jumma Musjid Gate' (illus.), and 'The Hosainabad Emambara, and Tomb of Mahomed-Ali-Khan...'.