Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the Ban Ganga river gorge towards the fort on the clifftop beyond. With bridge across river in foreground.
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View from the Ochterlony Monument looking north-west across the Maidan towards Government House and the River Hugli beyond. The tower and spire behind Government House belong to St John's Cathedral. The photograph is unsigned and uncredited, but it is like...
Maharaja Lachmesar Singh of Darbhanga. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length seated portrait of Sir Lachhmeswar Singh (1856-?1898), Maharaja of Darbhanga from 1860 (succeeded as minor). [Albumen print, 98x134mm]. Subjects = Bowring Collection; Indian rulers
Jabalpoor, group of Thugs. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Group of seven thugs seated on a carpet. The print is unnumbered and unsigned, but almost certainly corresponds to no. 128 in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue, where the location is given as Simla rather than Jabalpur. Jabalpur in fact seems a more likely location for, as Bowring writes (pp. 16...