VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including SCOWEN & CO., BOURNE & SHEPHERD, SAMUEL BOURNE, FISKE, and TABER PHOTOS.

India, Ceylon, Singapore, Hong Kong, China and America, 1870s-80s

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including SCOWEN & CO., BOURNE & SHEPHERD, SAMUEL BOURNE, FISKE, and TABER PHOTOS.
India, Ceylon, Singapore, Hong Kong, China and America, 1870s-80s
Two albums containing a total of approx. 155 albumen prints, sizes approx. 4 x 6 in. to 9 x 11 in. or the reverse, the majority signed and/or titled and numbered in the negatives, variously mounted, several titled in ink on mounts, half black morocco (one lacking front cover and disbound, one with front cover detached and part disbound), 4to.
出版
Worswick, Imperial China, p. 61 (illus.); Worswick and Embree, The Last Empire, p. 93 (illus.).

拍品專文

One album containing mainly views and portrait studies around India and Ceylon including group portraits of 'Tamil coolies', Singhalese Buddhist priests and another image of Buddhist priests in a procession, tea pickers, individual portraits of Tamil girls and a Kandyan chief; fruit, flower and tree studies; views around Kandy including a study of the Temple of the Tooth; views around Calcutta, Benares, Lucknow, Cawnpore, Delhi and Agra including views of the Taj Mahal and a few small portraits of Indian 'types'. The other album includes views around New York, San Francisco, Colorado and Chicago, of government buildings around Shanghai; two of Hong Kong harbour; a group portrait of women in the cangue, another of two men being pushed in a wheelbarrow, tree studies in Singapore and a still-life of fruit.