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231. Photo 50/1(107)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 50/1(107)
Title:
Picnic at Takht-i-Bhal [Takht-i-Bahi], Murdan area. Photographer: Burke, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography European picnickers wandering among the ruins. Subjects = archaeological sites; Bellew Collection; Indian architecture; picnics; social life Location = North-West Frontier Province; Pakistan; Takht-i-Bahi
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

232. Photo 50/1(108)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 50/1(108)
Title:
Picnic at Takht-i-Bhal [Takht-i-Bahi], Murdan area. Photographer: Burke, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography European picnicers wandering among the ruins. Reproduced in Omar Khan, 'From Kashmir to Kabul. The Photographs of John Burke and William Baker 1860-1900' (Prestel, 2002), p. 31. There dated 1866. Subjects = archaeological sites; Bellew Collection; Indian architect...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

233. Photo 50/1(31)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 50/1(31)
Title:
[Afridi tribesmen, at Fort Jamrud, North-West Frontier Province.] Photographer: Baker and Burke
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Three figures, one posed in the act of aiming a jezail, grouped in front of the fort. Possibly photographed by Baker & Burke during Lord Mayo's visit to the North-West Frontier. Subjects = Afridis (ethnic group); Bellew Collection; ethnic groups; forts Locat...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

234. Photo 50/1(60)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 50/1(60)
Title:
[The Viceroy Lord Mayo with senior army officers, Peshawar.] Photographer: Baker and Burke
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait. This appears to be the Baker & Burke photograph listed as 'Group of Lords Mayo and Napier, with staff, taken in Col. Pollock's Compound' in the series of views taken of the Viceroy's visit to Peshawar. Col (later Major-General Sir) Frederick Poll...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1871
Extent:
1 item

235. Photo 50/1(68)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 50/1(68)
Title:
[?Entry of the Viceroy Lord Mayo into Peshawar.] Photographer: Baker and Burke
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events View looking along a street in the Peshawar bazaar towards carriages and escort. All figures are too blurred through movement for identification, but this may be a scene taken during the Viceroy's visit to Peshawar. The photograph is probably by Baker & Burke, but p...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870
Extent:
1 item

236. Photo 50/1(87)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 50/1(87)
Title:
Looking across the Argandab Valley from Baba Wali Ziarat [Kandahar]. Photographer: Simpson, Benjamin
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered 'B. Simpson 39' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View across valley, with building in right foreground. One of the series of views taken by Simpson in and around Kandahar and marketed by Bourne and Shepherd.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1881
Extent:
1 item

237. Photo 50/1(43)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 50/1(43)
Title:
[Group with Amir Sher Ali, Ambala.] Photographer: Taylor, Clarence Comyn
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait, with Amir Sher Ali seated with European political officers and two unidentified Afghani sirdars. The Europeans are Surgeon Major Henry Bellew (standing at left), Col (later Sir) Frederick Pollock (seated to left of Amir), Col (later General Sir) Crawf...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mar 1869
Extent:
1 item

238. Photo 50/1(51)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 50/1(51)
Title:
[Portrait of Prince Abdullah Jan.] Photographer: Taylor, Clarence Comyn
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated portrait of the son of Amir Sher Ali Khan, possibly taken at the Ambala Durbar by Clarence Comyn Taylor (see note at print 79). The table in the photograph is the same as that seen in print 50. Subjects = Afghan rulers; Bellew Collection
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Mar 1869
Extent:
1 item

239. Photo 50/1(101)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 50/1(101)
Title:
[The Golden Temple, Kangra.] Photographer: C, H.B.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking down a narrow street towards the temple of Devi with its gilded cupola, later destroyed in the earthquake of 1905 and later rebuilt. Signed 'H.B.C.' in the negative. Probably the same photographer as print 102. Subjects = Bellew Collection...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

240. Photo 50/1(38)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 50/1(38)
Title:
[Portrait of Sher Ali Khan, Amir of Afghanistan.] Photographer: Baker and Burke
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated portrait (oval vignette), wearing heavy coat and black Astrakahn hat, sword in left hand. Probably taken during the return from the Ambala durbar with the Viceroy Lord Mayo, possibly at Jamrud. Duplicate at print 78. Photograph probably by Baker &a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Apr 1869
Extent:
1 item

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