Statue of Lord Canning at Calcutta by Foley and Brock. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Equestrian statue of Lord Canning, standing on a wooden pallet in Trafalgar Square before transportation to Calcutta. With the National Gallery in the background. For another copy of this print see Mss Eur D661 (42). [Albumen print, 160x139mm]. Subjects = Bowring C...
Genre: Portrait Photography Photographic copy of a (?watercolour) portrait of Sir Mark Cubbon (1785-1861), Commissioner of Mysore 1834-61. Side view, in uniform, seated on horseback. [Albumen print, 132x102mm]. Subjects = Bowring Collection; equestrian portraits; paintings and drawings
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait in three-quarters profile, seated at a table reading. Sir William Thomas Denison (1804-1871) was Governor of New South Wales 1854-61 and Governor of Madras 1861-66. Possibly photographed at Calcutta, where he had been summoned in December 1863 to...
The Wellesley Bridge, Seringapatam. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the bridge towards the minars of the Jami Masjid on the far bank. [Albumen print, 248x197mm]. Subjects = Bowring Collection; bridges; river scenes Location = India; Karnataka; Kaveri (river); Seringapatam; Shrirangapattana
Seringapatam Fort, showing the breach made in the walls before it was stormed on 4 May 1790. Photographer: Dixon, Henry
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Genre: Landscape Photography View from the river looking towards the walls of the fort. The point of the breach, in the left background, is marked with a cross on the print. Print in poor condition, with some tears and staining from glue. Unsigned, but probably by Henry Dixon: compare Photo 100...
Gateway in Seringapatam, near which Tippoo Sultan was killed. Photographer: Dixon, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards arched gateway in fort wall, with an Indian figure standing at either end of the gateway passage. Another copy at Photo 1000 (2272a). [Albumen print, 234x290mm]. Subjects = Bowring Collection; forts
Maharaja Krishnaraj Wodiar of Mysore. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated portrait of Krishnaraja Wadiyar (1796-1868), Raja of Mysore (succeeded as minor 1799, ruled 1811-31. This portrait is also used in Watson and Kaye's 'The People of India' (vol. 8, 1875): see Photo 972/8 (407). [Albumen print, 78x125mm]. Subjects...
Rajbinde, or noble of Raja's clan. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated portrait of a child of about ten years of age. This portrait is also used in Watson and Kaye's 'The People of India' (vol. 8, 1875): see Photo 972/8 (408). [Albumen print, 79x114mm]. Subjects = Bowring Collection; castes; Raja Bindas
The Mosque attached to Haidar Ali's Tomb [Seringapatam]. Photographer: Dixon, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the mosque connected to the tomb of Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan. Sky area has some off-setting from a document of some sort resting against the print in the past. For another copy in better condition, see Photo 1000 (2281a). [Albumen print, 284x2...
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