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Subject Roads and Highways Digitised Content Platform BL legacy Universal Viewer (unavailable) Level [40] File

1. P975

Reference (shelfmark):
P975
Title:
Environs de Calcutta. Octobre 1842. [A road with a rich Indian’s carriage passing a colony of sannyasis.]. Artist(s): Rudder, L.H. de (1807-1881), after Saltuikov, Aleksei Dmitrievich, Prince (1806-1859)
Scope & Content:
Lithograph of a road in the vicinity of Calcutta by L.H. de Rudder (1807-1881) published in 1848 after an original drawing by Aleksandr Mikhailovich Saltuikov dating from October 1842. This print shows the carriage of a rich Indian passing a colony of sanyasis. Sanyasis or sadhus in Hinduism are...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1848
Extent:
1 Item

2. P979

Reference (shelfmark):
P979
Title:
Une rue de Lahore (Mars 1842). [Sikh nobles on elephants etc. passing voyeurs on balconies]. Artist(s): Rudder, L.H. de (1807-1881), after Saltuikov, Aleksei Dmitrievich, Prince (1806-1859)
Scope & Content:
Lithograph of a street in Lahore in Pakistan with Sikh nobles on elephants passing onlookers on balconies by L.H. de Rudder (1807-1881) after an original drawing of March 1842 by Prince Aleksandr Mikhailovich Saltuikov and published in 1848.After the death of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1707...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1848
Extent:
1 Item

3. Photo 11(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 11(3)
Title:
Street view in Tanjore showing one of the native palaces. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
View in a street in Tanjore, taken by Samuel Bourne in 1869. Street scene in Tanjore (Thanjavur), with figures posed in the roadway and an imposing mansion on the left.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 11(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 11(13)
Title:
Road scene near Tanjore. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
View along a palm-lined road, with two figures standing in the middleground and with a temple gopura seen through the trees in the distance. Tanjore, taken by Samuel Bourne in 1869.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 11(98)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 11(98)
Title:
Avenue of poplars at Srinuggur, Kashmir. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Photograph of in Srinagar, Kashmir, taken by Samuel Bourne in the 1860s. This is a view of an avenue of Poplars. Poplars are fast growing trees which are often planted along roadsides or river and canal banks to act as wind barriers.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1864
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 11(113)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 11(113)
Title:
View in the Thibet road at Pangi. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
View of the Tiber road at Pangi, with the Chini peaks in the distance, taken by Samuel Borne in the 1860s.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1866
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 11(121)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 11(121)
Title:
A pleasant walk near Tukvar, Darjeeling. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Rear view of a European man walking along a woodland road near Darjeeling. Exhibited at the Bengal Photographic Society Exhibition of 1869, where it was praised as displaying 'an unusually perfect rendering of foliage.'
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1869
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 29(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 29(12)
Title:
Panoramic view from Chowringhee Road [Calcutta]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1709 in the negative. View looking north along Chowringhee Road, with the Maidan on the left. In the distance can be seen the Ochterlony Monument, Government House and the Town Hall (extreme left).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 29(30)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 29(30)
Title:
The Strand [Calcutta]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1727 in the negative. View looking north along Strand Road, with shipping at anchor on the Hugli at the left.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 29(33)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 29(33)
Title:
Rustic life in Bengal. Native bazaar. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1730 in the negative. A print from Bourne's Rustic scenes and village life in Bengal series, photographed in the Calcutta area. A view looking along a village street, lined on either side with open-sided huts selling produce of various sorts. A European f...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item