Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the gallery of the palace, with bodyguard on parade in court in foreground. Another copy at Photo 1000 (2283a). [Albumen print, 287x235mm]. Subjects = Bowring Collection; Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Hindu); palaces
Merkara - Palace in distance. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography General view of Mercara (modern Madikeri), looking towards the palace and fort on the hill opposite. [Albumen print, oval vignetted image, 180x120mm]. Subjects = architecture; Bowring Collection; forts; Indian architecture; palaces Location = India; Karnataka;...
Pearl Mosque in Agra Fort. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking north-west across the court of the Moti Masjid towards the screen of arches. Three Europeans are grouped in front of the central arch: the right-hand figure is probably Samuel Bourne.
Two caparisoned elephants, one bearing a howdah, in camp. Probably photographed in the Viceroy's camp during the tour of 1858. [Albumen print, 185x142mm]. Subjects = animals; Bowring Collection; elephants; howdahs; state elephants
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length standing carte-de-visite portrait of Charles Burslem Saunders, Judicial Commissioner in 1862 and then Resident at Hyderabad 1868-75. Subjects = Bowring Collection; government officers; Mysore Commission
Major R.H. Sankey C.B. [Mysore Commission]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Head and shoulders vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Richard Hieram Sankey, Royal Engineers 1846-84: '...a brave soldier, an excellent artist, and a skilful engineer, his talent being remarkable and his energy great, but his ardent and impulsive nature sometimes ...
Mr Lewis Rice C.I.E. [Mysore Commission]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Head and shoulders vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of William George Lewis Rice: 'The other officers of the Commission were scarcely above par, or deserving of notice, except for Mr L. Rice of the Education Department, who rose to be its head, and successfully pro...