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1. Photo 430/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/1
Title:
Curzon Collection: Eton Photographs 1876-8 Photographer(s): Hills and Saunders
Scope & Content:
Full-leather bound carte de visite album with raised decorations, measuring 295x230mm, containing portraits inserted in alternate oval and rectangular openings, four to a page. A few of the central pages have cabinet portrait size openings and there also a number of full-page group portraits. Th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
141 items

2. Photo 430/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/2
Title:
Curzon Collection: 'Afghan War 1878-79. Peshawur Valley Field Force. J. Burke'. Photographer(s): Burke, John
Scope & Content:
Maroon half-leather bound album measuring 315 x 455 mm, with title as above stamped in gold on leather label laid down on front cover. The album is secured with a brass clasp and is in generally firm condition apart from some scuffing and tears to top and bottom of spine piece. The prints are mo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878-1880
Extent:
94 items

3. Photo 430/4

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/4
Title:
Curzon Collection: 'Central Asia' and 'Turkish Arabia etc'. Photographer(s): Curzon, George Nathaniel
Scope & Content:
Black half-leather album, 280x377mm, containing mounted prints with captions in Curzon's own hand. The titles are stamped in gold on both the front and back covers. The album is in two parts. Prints 1-15 are views of 'Central Asia' with a handwritten heading inside which reads 'Photographs of Ce...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1888-1890
Extent:
36 items

4. Photo 430/5

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/5
Title:
Curzon Collection: 'Ceylon, India'. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Black half-leather album, 280x372mm, containing mounted prints with captions in Curzon's own hand. The title is stamped in gold on the front cover. A note inside reads: 'Photographs of Ceylon and India (1st journey of G.N.C. Round the World, 1887-8)'. The photographs are mainly topographical and...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
29 items

5. Photo 430/6

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/6
Title:
Curzon Collection: 'Views of HH the Nizam's Dominions, Hyderabad, Deccan, 1892'. Photographer(s): Dayal, Deen
Scope & Content:
Black full-leather album, 320x448mm, containing mounted prints with letterpress captions. The title and state crest are stamped in gold on the front cover within a gold floral border along with Deen Dayal's name. The photographs record the topography and architecture throughout Hyderebad State i...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1892
Extent:
83 items

6. Photo 430/7

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/7
Title:
Curzon Collection: Album of Armenian and Turkish views and portraits. 'George N. Curzon from H. F. B. Lynch, July 1895'. Photographer(s): Lynch, Henry Finnis Blosse
Scope & Content:
Wooden box, 412x310mm, in mock-album form, with maroon full-leather covers. The dedication is stamped in gold on the front cover and the sides of the box are gilt. The photographs are individually window-mounted and stacked in the box. Each print has a handwritten inscription, either on the fron...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1893-1894
Extent:
27 items

7. Photo 430/9

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/9
Title:
Curzon Collection: 'Delhi Durbar, 1903'. Photographer(s): Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Maroon full-leather album, 280x390mm, containing mounted prints with handwritten captions. The title is stamped in gold on the front cover. A label on the inside front cover reads: 'Bourne & Shepherd, artists, photographers & publishers, Calcutta, Simla & Bombay'. All the views are t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1903
Extent:
26 items

8. Photo 430/10

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/10
Title:
Curzon Collection: 'Viceroy's Camp, Delhi, 1903'. Photographer(s): Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Maroon full-leather album, 280x390mm, containing mounted prints with some handwritten captions. The title is stamped in gold on the front cover. A label on the inside front cover reads: 'Bourne & Shepherd. Photographers to their Excellencies the Viceroy and Commander-in-Chief, Simla, Calcutt...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1903
Extent:
23 items

9. Photo 430/11

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/11
Title:
Curzon Collection: Photographs of plans and buildings used during the Delhi Durbar. Photographer(s): Wiele and Klein
Scope & Content:
Red full-leather album, 280x390mm, containing mounted prints with letterpress captions, the pages are interleaved with tissue. The prints, which are mostly of a poor quality, are copies of plans for Delhi Durbar buildings and photographs of some of the actual buildings used. The last print is a ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1903
Extent:
38 items

10. Photo 430/12

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/12
Title:
Curzon Collection: 'Retainer's Review, Delhi, 1903'. Photographer(s): Bremner, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Red full-leather bound album with padded covers, measuring 280x390mm, with crown and title as above stamped in gold on front cover and decorative endpapers. The Bourne & Shepherd label is pasted onto the front fixed endpaper but at least some photographs (specifically those signed 'F.B.' and...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
7January1903
Extent:
37 items