JOHNSTON & HOFFMANN

'The Hutwa Marriage 1908'

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JOHNSTON & HOFFMANN
'The Hutwa Marriage 1908'
Presentation album containing thirty-eight gelatin silver prints, 4½ x 6 in. and 10¾ x 7¼ in. or the reverse, mounted one or two-per-page, titled on printed labels on mounts, descriptive text, presentation page Presented to Mr. and Miss Landale with The Maharani Sahiba of Hutwa's Best Wishes in gilt with coat-of-arms, photographers' printed credit label Johnston & Hoffmann Photographers & Art Publishers...Calcutta inside front cover, red morocco, titled, dated and with coat-of-arms in gilt on front cover, folio.

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Photographs documenting the marriage of the Maharaja of Hutwa on 10th Feburary 1908 including several portraits of the young Maharaja in traditional ceremonial dress, preparation for the elephant procession, group portraits of the European guests and the young Maharaja with his relatives and staff, and interior views of the dining-room, drawing-room and ballroom at Shamiana.

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