Andamanese group with Mr Homfray, their keeper, photographed at Calcutta. Photographer: Saché and Westfield
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Portrait of seven Andamanese youths and Jeremiah Nelson Homfray, Superintendent of the Andamanese Orphanage. Oval image. The Andamanese were brought to Calcutta, where they were displayed to the members of the Asiatic Society, before being taken to the studio of Saché and Westfield, where they w...
Portrait of Sagramji, Thakur Sahib of Gondal, Kathiawar District. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Numbered 1726 in pencil on mount below print. Full-length seated portrait. The lithographed portrait of Sagrami in R. H. Jalbhoy, The portrait gallery of Western India (Bombay, 1886), plate 13, is based on this photograph. The statuette seen in prints 4375-4376, is also present in this portrait.
Studio portrait of three Parsees and a Parbhu, Bombay. Photographer: Hurrichund Chintamon.
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Group seated around a small table, on which are placed books and writing implements, emphasising their intellectual interests and attainments. The Parbhu (Prabhu) man is second from the right. For a detailed account of this group, see S.M. Edwardes, The Gazetteer of Bombay City and Island (3 vol...
Rajput men playing the game of Puchesee. Photographer: Eugene Clutterbuck Impey.
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Duplicate of plate 67(a) of Impey's Delhi, Agra, and Rajpootana, Illustrated by Eighty Photographs (Cundall, Downes, & Co., London, 1865). 'Recd. from Messrs. Cundall & Downes 8/4/65.' Print shown at Paris Exhibition of 1867.
Studio portrait of two Maratha youths from Akalkot, at Bombay. Photographer: Hurrichund Chintamon.
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Full-length portrait of two young men, seated on either side of an occasional table. Both wear the characteristic elaborate turban of the Akalkot Marathas. Print shown at the Paris Exhibition of 1867.