SIKKIM: Thotab Namgue, Maharaja of Sikkim (1851-1914). Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait, seated cross-legged behind a low table. Photograph unsigned, but possibly by Bourne & Shepherd, since a duplicate copy appears in their 1903 Delhi Durbar album, Photo 430/78 (42). The Maharaja's date of birth is there given as 1860. Subjec...