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201. Photo 1168/1(93)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1168/1(93)
Title:
The Old Fort, Calcutta. Approximate site of the notorious 'Black Hole.' Photographer: Saché and Westfield
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Photographers' wet stamp, reading 'Saché & Westfield Photographers Waterloo Street Calcutta,' on reverse of mount. Genre: Architectural Photography View showing an inner court or piazza of the old fort, looking towards thick brick arches. Prints 93 and 95 are clearly the two p...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

202. Photo 1168/1(106)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1168/1(106)
Title:
Calcutta 4th Oct 1864. The result of the cyclone. Photographer: Baker, F. W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events Close view of the roots of a tree uprooted in the cyclone, probably photographed in the Botanical Gardens, with three Indian figures posed in the foreground. With pencilled note on album page: 'Ind. fern.' Photograph uncredited, but tentatively attributed to F. W. Baker...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
4 Oct 1864
Extent:
1 item

203. Photo 1168/1(109)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1168/1(109)
Title:
Rock temple [Rock-cut Jain shrine of Vattuvan Kovil at Kalugumalai]. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Inscribed on print 'Druck von J. B. Obernetter.' Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of the rock-cut dome. This is a photo-mechanical print (apparently his collotype process introduced c. 1870) made by Johann Baptist Obernetter from Lyon's photograph. For an albumen print ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1867-1868
Extent:
1 item

204. Photo 1168/2(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1168/2(3)
Title:
View from the top of the Emperor Humaioons tomb looking North. Photographer: Saché, John Edward
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered 'Saché 138' in the negative. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View from Humayun's Tomb (with its arcaded external wall in the foreground), looking across fields dotted with ruined structures towards the Purana Qila or Old Fort. In the far distance, the Ja...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

205. Photo 1168/2(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1168/2(25)
Title:
Futtehpore Sikri. The marble tomb of Sheik Selim Chisti, showing beautiful trellised screens. Photographer: Saché, John Edward
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered 'Saché 348' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography Close view of marble latticework screens on the Tomb of Shaikh Salim Chisti, in the court of the Jami Masjid at Fatehpur Sikri. Letterpress caption label pasted below print.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

206. Photo 1168/1(125)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1168/1(125)
Title:
Calcutta. Results of the cyclone [inscribed in pencil on reverse, 'Root of buhoo tree']. Photographer: Baker, F. W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events Close view of the exposed roots of the fallen tree, uprooted by the cyclone and probably photographed in the Botanical Gardens, with a European family group seated on the trunk in the background. Torn portions at top and bottom left corners. Photograph uncredited, but ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1864-Oct 1864
Extent:
1 item

207. Photo 1168/2(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1168/2(26)
Title:
Futtehpore Sikri. General view of the fountains and palace of Akbar's Turkish wife. Photographer: Saché, John Edward
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered 'Saché 355' in the negative. Genre: Architectural Photography View looking in a north-easterly direction across the ornamental pool known as the Anup Talao, towards the apartments known as the Turkish Sultana's House. Letterpress caption label pasted below print.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

208. Photo 1168/1(68)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1168/1(68)
Title:
Cashmir. Baramula from south side of river. Photographer: Baker, William Henry
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'Bourne' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View from the Jhelum riverbank, looking along the river towards a bridge and the houses of the town beyond, with hills rising in the background. Unnumbered in the negative, but with Bourne and Shepherd catalogue number ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1864
Extent:
1 item

209. Photo 1168/2(16)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1168/2(16)
Title:
Delhi. Kutub, showing carving to 1st gallery. Photographer: Saché, John Edward
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered 'Saché 133' in the negative. Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of the lower portion of the Qutb Minar, showing the bands of calligraphic carving. Letterpress caption label pasted below print.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

210. Photo 1168/1(92)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1168/1(92)
Title:
Lord Mayo and Ameer Shere Ali in Durbar [at Ambala]. Photographer: Taylor, Clarence Comyn
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of Lord Mayo and staff, seated with the Amir of Afghanistan, Sher Ali Khan, at the durbar held at Ambala in March 1869. The heads of the figures of Mayo's staff seated in the right front row, appear to have been montaged onto the body. For a variant of...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mar 1869
Extent:
1 item