SCOWEN & CO.

'Vues de Ceylan', 1880s

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SCOWEN & CO.
'Vues de Ceylan', 1880s
Album containing twenty-seven albumen prints, each approx. 9 x 11 in., several signed and/or titled and numbered in the negatives, mounted one-per-page, titled in ink on mounts, decorative end papers, red morocco, titled and ruled in gilt on front cover, titled again on spine, g.e., oblong 4to.
Literature
Worswick and Embree, The Last Empire: Photography in British India, 1855-1911, p. 93 (illus.); Desmond, Victorian India in Focus, p. 30 (illus.).

Lot Essay

Views around Colombo and Kandy including street scenes, village scenes, architectural studies and landscape studies; an image of a festival scene with elephants; studies of the Buddha temple, Kandy; a view of a coffee plantation; seven tree studies; portraits of workers in the tea fields, two men working with oxen, devil dancers; and a flower study.

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