Lyall Collection: Album of carte-de-visite portraits and Indian Views. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Half-leather bound album (modern rebinding) containing 113 albumen prints, 1850s-70s. The prints are mainly carte-de-visite portraits of members of the Lyall family, friends and others, plus some topographical and architectural views, including a view of the Jami Masjid at Agra taken in about 18...
Lyall Collection: Album of Indian Views and Portraits. Photographer(s): Saché, John Edward
Scope & Content:
Half-leather album measuring 442 x 335 mm, containing 113 albumen prints of Indian (and a few English) scenes, most mounted two to a page, with handwritten captions in ink beneath most prints. The contents consists of topographical and architectural views and numerous portrait groups, the majori...
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of Europeans posed in a garden at Murree and identified as follows: Mrs Boswell, Col. Ben Williams, M. J. B. Lyall, Mrs Tucker, Captain Tucker, Mrs Lyall, Colonel Boswell, A. L. O. E.
Inscription: Signed in the negative, 'Saché 629.' Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View along the Ridge at Simla, looking down through the trees from Jakko, with Christ Church on the right.
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated portrait of the Bukhara envoy, with another figure standing behind him. Both wear medals. Possibly photographed at Murree.