'Sketches in Baghdad by Commander Jones': Interior court of the British Residency, Baghdad [copied from a photograph by J. McA. Hyslop].
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Genre: Architectural Photography With inscription: 'Copied in the Q. Mr. Genls Office, Mahableshwar, Novr. 1855', and initialled 'G.P.' India Museum no. 59. See also prints 4096-4098. Also reproduced as a hand-coloured lithograph in 'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' (no. 43...
'Sketches in Baghdad by Commander Jones': Lady Tobeidah's Tomb, Baghdad, from the north [pen and wash sketch, copied from a photograph by J. McA. Hyslop].
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Genre: Architectural Photography With inscription: 'Copied in the Quarter Mr. Genls Office, Mahableshwar, 10th Novr. 1855', and initialled 'J.W.'[?]. India Museum no. 61. See also prints 4096-4098. Also reproduced as a hand-coloured lithograph in 'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Gove...
No. 38. Amerapoora. Portico of the Residency. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Architectural Photography View from the courtyard, looking towards the open-sided portico. Letterpress continues: 'This covered a square of ninety feet having a dome-like roof of thatched bamboo, and closed on the outer side by a Proscenium for Marionettes, draperied with blue cloth lace...
No. 39. Amerapoora. West Gate of the Residency Enclosure. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Architectural Photography View from outside the Residency enclosure, looking towards the gate. Letterpress continues: 'This enclosure was formed by a bamboo wall about eighteen feet high, on the outer of which was a continuous shed all round except at the east and west sides, in the cent...
No. 40. Amerapoora. Barracks of the Burmese Guard. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the thatched huts running along the outer wall of the Residency that served as barracks for the Burmese guard of honour to the mission. Letterpress continues: 'Their arms are tied to the racks, their bandolier-like belts, and red or green lacq...
Vue du Palais de l'Ambassade d'Angleterre à Thérapia (Bosphore) [Tarabya] [Turkish text: View of the British Embassy in Tarabya]. Photographer: Abdullah Frères
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Inscription: Signed 'Abdullah Frères' in the negative Genre: Architectural Photography View of the large mansion of the British ambassador on the edge of the Bosphorus at Tarabya.
Vue du Palais de l'Ambassade d'Allemagne à Thérapia (Bosphore) [Tarabya] [Turkish text: View of the German Embassy in Tarabya]. Photographer: Abdullah Frères
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Inscription: Signed 'Abdullah Frères' in the negative Genre: Architectural Photography View of the German ambassador's house on the Bosphorus waterfront at Tarabya.