BOURNE & SHEPHERD

The Coronation Durbar Delhi, Calcutta, Simla and Bombay: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1903

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BOURNE & SHEPHERD
The Coronation Durbar Delhi, Calcutta, Simla and Bombay: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1903
Forty-nine platinum prints from this publication, including six composite photographs, several panoramic format to approx. 5½ x 11 in., other sizes approx. 8½ x 11 in. to 9 x 13 in. or the reverse, mounted to back of overmatt with descriptive text pages mounted in, several two-per-mount, tissue guards. (37)

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Including portraits of the Shan Chiefs and Princesses, the Maharajas of Kashmir, Mourbhanj, Burdwan and other composite portrait studies; a 'Giant of Cashmere'; the Princess Thiri Dipandi; cavalry displays, the 'Devil Dancers from Ladakh'; views of the state entry into Delhi; several views in the Amphitheatre; an image of the opening of the Arts Exhibition, 1902; and several images of the Durbar.

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