Panorama of Abu looking north from Jeypore House. Photographer: Herzog and Higgins
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Genre: Landscape Photography Panorama in two parts. The following locations are identified below the print: 'The Lake, Ulwar House, Guru Sikar Range, the Residency, the Barracks, St Xaviour's Church, the Lawrence School [and] Bazar'. This photograph must have been taken earlier than the date on...
The Trevor Oval Pavilion, so called after Col Trevor, the late AGG for Rajputana, under whose auspices and by the liberality of several of the Rajputana Chiefs, this pleasant and spacious recreation ground was formed... Photographer: Herzog and Higgins
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Genre: Architectural Photography Caption continues: '...out of what was before a swampy and unwholesome hollow. The Pavilion is the gift of HH the Maharajah of Jeypore'. Subjects = British colonial architecture; European architecture in India; hill stations; pavilions
Red leather bound album measuring 360x480mm, with title as above stamped in gold on front cover, and inscription label pasted to front fixed endpaper reading: 'Presented to [blank] by His Highness Sir Kaishree Singji Bahadur, G.C.I.E., K.C.S.I., Maharao of Sirohi State, Rajputana. [Signed] Kaish...
His Highness Sir Kaishree Singhji Bahadur, G.C.I.E., K.C.S.I. Maha Rao of Sirohi State, with regal attendants. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated portrait of Sir Kesri Singh (b.1857), Maharao of Sirohi 1875-1920 (abdicated). Behind him stand four attendants, two chauri-badars (fly-whisk bearers) and two chobdars (mace or staff bearers). Subjects = chauri-badars; chobdars; Indian rulers; pa...