Dec 13, 2007 - Sale 2132

Sale 2132 - Lot 317

Price Realized: $ 4,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(ASIA)
Album containing approximately 70 photographs of India, Burma, and other locales by samuel bourne, t.a. rust, john burke and others. With striking views of Mussoori, Uttar Pradesh, the foothills of the Himalayas, Lucknow, Delhi, Agra, Benares, Cawnpoor and the Taj Mahal. Albumen prints, 9x11 1/2 inches (22.8x29.2 cm.) and smaller, 12 with Bourne's and/or Bourne/Shepherd's, 17 with Rust's, 2 with Burke's signatures in the negative; 12 identified in pencil as being taken by Tosco Peppe; many with penciled captions on mount recto. Oblong folio, 1/2 morocco and cloth. Circa 1861-75
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A truly remarkable album featuring photographs of India by Samuel Bourne and other notable photographers of the British Raj. The pictures convey the extraordinary natural beauty of this geographical region, its remarkable architecture, studies of indigenous types, and pictures of British outposts, including the convent, club house and churches.


Seven of the photographs are of Burma or Myanmar; nine are of Lucknow; four of Benares; four of Delhi; two of Cawnpoor; two of the Taj Mahal with a few others of Agra. The front pastedown contains a large chromolithograph label featuring the sentiment: "There is No Place Like Home, Annie Larpent, 1880."