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1591. Photo 210/1(52)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 210/1(52)
Title:
Galle Jewellers. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Four men standing round a table displaying jewellery. For another copy, see Photo 1224/1 (131) and for a carte-de-visite of the same group in a different pose, see Photo 127 (98). Photograph of four jewellers from Galle, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), displayin...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1872
Extent:
1 item

1592. Photo 210/2(33)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 210/2(33)
Title:
Nautch at Delhi. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Nautch dance in progress, with spectators seated round the performers in a courtyard, and women watching from a purdah gallery above. Subjects = dance; entertainers; nautches
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

1593. Photo 211/1(53)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 211/1(53)
Title:
[Group of Kashmiri women, Srinagar.] Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '809' in the negative. Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group portrait of Kashmiri women, posed in front of an unidentified building.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1864
Extent:
1 item

1594. Photo 246(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 246(1)
Title:
Stereoscopic daguerreotpe portrait of Mrs Clara Nicholson. Photographer: Claudet, Antoine François Jean
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length seated portrait of Clara Nicholson (née Hogg, 1795-1874), mother of General John Nicholson (1821-1857). A hand-coloured stereoscopic daguerreotype, each image measuring 68 x 58 mm, in a leather case measuring 100 x 191 mm, with built-in viewer, t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 item

1595. Photo 246(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 246(2)
Title:
Daguerreotype portrait of Brigadier-General John Nicholson. Photographer: Kilburn, William E.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length seated cased daguerreotype portrait of John Nicholson (1821-1857), Bengal army, killed during the storming of Delhi in the Indian Mutiny. Very light gold tinting on chair and watch chain, the sitter looking off to the left. Contained in a maroon ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 item

1596. Photo 246(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 246(3)
Title:
Portrait of Charles Johnson Nicholson. Photographer: Kilburn, William E.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length hand-coloured portrait of Charles Johnson Nicholson (c. 1828-1862), Bengal Army, who lost an arm at the storming of Delhi during the Indian Mutiny. This appears to be a hand-coloured paper print. Cased image in gilt matt, the case measuring 152 x 130 mm, ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 item

1597. Photo 247/1(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 247/1(25)
Title:
Hut of a pariah woman near Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the negative 'F. Fiebig' (signature cropped). Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Stusy of a woman squatting beside a thatched hut in foreground, with fields and other more substantial thatched houses beyond. Part of the land in the background appears to be in use as ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1851-1852
Extent:
1 item

1598. Photo 291(57)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 291(57)
Title:
Nautch girls [and musicians]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Subjects = dance; nautches
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1890
Extent:
1 item

1599. Photo 335/4(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 335/4(1)
Title:
Denis, Quetta. Photographer: Spalding, Herbert Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Snapshot of Denis Spalding seated on a pony, with two Indian orderlies standing behind.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900-1910
Extent:
1 item

1600. Photo 335/4(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 335/4(2)
Title:
Denis and Ina [Quetta]. Photographer: Spalding, Herbert Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Snapshot of Denis and Ina Spalding in prams in a garden.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900-1910
Extent:
1 item

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