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41. Photo 29(39)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 29(39)
Title:
Roadside view near Garden Reach [Calcutta]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1736 in the negative. From Bourne's Rustic scenes and village life in Bengal series, photographed in the Calcutta area. View looking along and unsurfaced road towards the thatched huts of a village, with a tank on the left and a group of Indian figures po...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

42. Photo 29(41)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 29(41)
Title:
Native village [Bengal]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1738 in the negative. From Bourne's Rustic scenes and village life in Bengal series, photographed in the Calcutta area. View looking across a village tank towards thatched huts among the palm trees, with figures posed at the water's edge in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

43. Photo 29(42)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 29(42)
Title:
Native butcher's shop and cattle for slaughter [Bengal]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1739 in the negative. From Bourne's Rustic scenes and village life in Bengal series, photographed in the Calcutta area. A village scene, looking across the tank towards thatched huts with characteristic Bengali curved eaves, with the butcher's shop in the...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

44. Photo 169/2(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 169/2(26)
Title:
[City Palace at] Ulwar. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View from the south end of the tank or Sagar at Alwar, looking towards part of the City Palace buildings flanking the east side, with a portion of the Cenotaph of Maharaja Bakhtawar Singh (also known as the Moosi Maharani ki Chhatri) in the right foreground. Ove...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

45. Photo 169/2(27)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 169/2(27)
Title:
[View looking down on the City Palace], Ulwar Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View from the hillside leading up to the hill fort at Alwar, looking down onto the tank or Sagar, with the City Palace beyond, and the Cenotaph of Maharaja Bakhtawar Singh on the right. Prints 25-32 are uncredited, but may possibly be part of the Bourne and Shep...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

46. Photo 169/2(28)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 169/2(28)
Title:
[View of the Sagar or tank], Ulwar. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View from the north end of the Sagar, looking across the tank, lined with rows of chhatris, towards the cenotaph of Maharaja Bakhtawar Singh. On the right is a more modern temple complex, built in the early 1860s (for other views of these temples, taken around t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

47. Photo 169/2(29)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 169/2(29)
Title:
Bird's eye view of Ulwar. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View from the hill fort looking over the town. In the foreground is the tank or Sagar, with the City Palace flanking its eastern side and the Cenotaph of Maharaja Bakhtawar Singh at the south end. Prints 25-32 are uncredited, but may possibly be part of th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

48. Photo 179(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 179(18)
Title:
Post Office [Calcutta]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the Dalhousie Tank in Dalhousie Square (now B.B.D. Bagh) towards the Post Office. With descriptive letterpress caption label pasted to reverse.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1872
Extent:
1 item

49. Photo 212/1(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 212/1(14)
Title:
Jumbookeshwar Temple near Trichinopoly. The tank and surrounding objects. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the tank of the Jambukeshvara Temple at Srirangam, with a shrine in the centre and a columned mandapa on the far side. On of the temple gopuras can be seen on the skyline in the background. Lyon's 'Notes to accompany a series of photographs p...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1867-1868
Extent:
1 item

50. Photo 212/2(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 212/2(7)
Title:
Madura. The Great Pagoda [Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple]. The Golden Lotus Tank. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '297' in the negative. Genre: Architectural Photography View looking (?)south-west across the Golden Lily Tank or Pottamarai Kulam, in the Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple, towards gopuras beyond. Lyon's 'Notes to accompany a series of photographs prepared to illustrate the ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1867-1868
Extent:
1 item

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