Mary Laura Bowring, née Talbot, 1862 [probably in Calcutta]. Photographer: Rowe, Josiah
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length standing portrait, posed against a plain backdrop with her right hand resting on the back of a chair. Mrs Bowring is here photographed in the same makeshift studio as the sitters in prints 148, 172 and 175: these portraits appear to be the work of Josiah ...
Lord Canning, First Viceroy of India, 1860. Photographer: Rowe, Josiah
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Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length portrait of the Viceroy Lord Canning, showing him seated at a table reading a document. This is probably one of the portraits by Rowe which were pirated and marketed by the London photographer Hering: for a note on the matter, see print 170. For ...
Genre: Architectural Photography General view from the garden in front of the building. [Albumen print, 356x258mm]. Subjects = Bowring Collection; Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Islamic); palaces
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the lake towards the buildings, with Ochterlony's Monument in the foreground. [Albumen print, 346x260mm]. Subjects = Bowring Collection; education; European architecture in India; French colonial architecture; palaces; schools