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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Photo 1224 Language Not applicable Name Lucas, Charles James, 1853-1928

1. Photo 1224/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/1
Title:
Lucas Collection: Photographic record of the world tour of Charles James and Morton Peto Lucas 1877-79: volume 1 India and Ceylon. Photographer(s): Hippolyte Arnoux, Samuel Bourne, Bourne and Shepherd, A. T. W. Penn, Pestonjee Dosabhoy, Willoughby Wallace Hooper, W. L. H. Skeen and Co., Charles T. Scowen and Co, and others unknown
Scope & Content:
++ full leather album measuring 565 x 450 mm, stamped in gilt within rules on upper cover, +++ All edges gilt. The album contains 132 albumen prints purchased from commercial photographers and recording places visited by the brothers Charles James and Morton Peto Lucas in the course of their tra...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s-1870s
Extent:
132 items

2. Photo 1224/1(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/1(1)
Title:
[Portrait of Charles James Lucas.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Half-length carte de visite portrait of Charles James Lucas (1853-1928).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1877
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1224/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/2
Title:
Lucas Collection: Photographic record of the world tour of Charles James and Morton P. Lucas, 1877-79. Volume 2, India and Kashmir. Photographer(s): Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Black full leather album measuring 565 x 450 mm, stamped in gilt within rules on upper cover, India & Kashmir. 2. C.J.L. & M.P.L. All edges gilt. The album contains 197 albumen prints purchased from commercial photographers and recording places visited by the brothers Charles James and M...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s-1878
Extent:
197 items

4. Photo 1224/2(195)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/2(195)
Title:
My Indian Trophies. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Full-length portrait of Charles James Lucas (1853-1928), the compiler of this album, seated in front of his tent with a large collection of animal heads, in the garden of the Apcar's house in Calcutta. Lucas describes this photographic session in a diary letter to his parents: '27 Decr. Up at da...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
27 Dec 1878
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1224/2(196)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/2(196)
Title:
[Studio portrait of Charles James Lucas.] Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Full-length studio portrait of Charles James Lucas (1853-1928), the compiler of this album, in travelling gear and wearing a turban, holding a rifle and walking pole. This portrait was clearly made during the same session as the Bourne and Shepherd cabinet portrait at Photo 1224/8(1), which is d...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
30 Dec 1878
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1224/2(197)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/2(197)
Title:
My Indian Trophies. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Portrait of Charles James Lucas (1853-1928), the compiler of this album, standing with an Indian servant in front of his tent (pitched in the garden of the Calcutta house belonging to the Apcar family), with hunting trophies arranged around him. See print 195 for a note on this photographic sess...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
27 Dec 1878
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1224/3

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/3
Title:
Lucas Collection: Photographic record of the world tour of Charles James and Morton P. Lucas, 1877-79. Volume 3, China. Photographer(s): Lai Afong and others
Scope & Content:
Charles Lucas, in one of his diary letters home to his parents, records purchasing his China views in Hong Kong on 6 March 1879, but does not identify the photographer: 'Up at 8 & finished writing up this letter before tiffin then went to photographers to buy views etc. of Hong Kong Canton &...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s-1870s
Extent:
87 items

8. Photo 1224/4

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/4
Title:
Lucas Collection: Photographic record of the world tour of Charles James and Morton P. Lucas, 1877-79. Volume 4, Straits Settlements, Java, Cochin China and America. Photographers: G. R. Lambert and Co., Woodbury and Page, Emile Gsell, Carleton E. Watkins, William Notman, Frith's Series and others unknown
Scope & Content:
Large folio album measuring 565 mm x 460 mm, titled in gilt on front cover: Straits Settlements Java Cochin China and America. The volume contains 154 albumen prints purchased from commercial studios and mounted recto only on the album pages, with neat handwritten captions accompanying most of t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s-1870s
Extent:
154 items

9. Photo 1224/5

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/5
Title:
Lucas Collection: Photographic record of the world tour of Charles James and Morton P. Lucas, 1877-79. Volume 5, Japan (part 1). Photographer(s): Stillfried, Raimund von
Scope & Content:
Large folio album measuring 565 mm x 460 mm, titled in gilt on front cover: Japan. I. C. J. L. The volume contains 68 albumen prints, many hand-coloured, purchased from commercial studios and mounted recto only on the album pages, with neat handwritten captions accompanying most of the photograp...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
68 items

10. Photo 1224/6

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/6
Title:
Lucas Collection: Photographic record of the world tour of Charles James and Morton P. Lucas, 1877-79. Volume 6, Japan (part 2). Photographer(s): Stillfried, Raimund von
Scope & Content:
Large folio album measuring 565 mm x 460 mm, titled in gilt on front cover: Japan. 2. C. J. L. The volume contains 75 albumen prints, many hand-coloured, purchased from commercial studios and mounted recto only on the album pages, with neat handwritten captions accompanying most of the photograp...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
75 items