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1. Photo 150

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 150
Title:
Compton Collection: Scrap album of Louisa Compton. Photographer(s): Johnson and Henderson
Scope & Content:
Red and gold leather bound album with decorative cover (front cover detached), measuring 296x239mm and containing photographs, engravings, watercolour sketches and pressed flowers. Non-photographic material relating to India has been catalogued in Mildred Archer, British Drawings in the India Of...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
49 items

2. Photo 150(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 150(17)
Title:
[The Brahmachari Bawa, Vishnu Bhiku, Bombay.] Photographer: Johnson and Henderson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Studio portrait of two men. This photograph also appears as no. 17 in 'The Indian Amateur's Photographic Album' (1856-58) as part of the 'Costumes and Characters of Western India' series, with the following letterpress description: 'Vishnu Bhiku, well known o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 150(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 150(18)
Title:
[Brahmani women, Bombay.] Photographer: Johnson and Henderson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length portrait of two Brahmin women posed on the steps of a house. Duplicate at Photo 140 (49), where the print is used in an issue of The Indian amateur's photographic album. This print is also used in William Johnson's The Oriental Races and Tribes. Res...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 150(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 150(20)
Title:
[Studio portrait of a Parsi woman and child, Bombay.] Photographer: Johnson and Henderson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length portrait of mother and child. The woman in this photograph appears as a member of a group of Parsi women in William Johnson's The Oriental Races and Tribes: residents and visitors of Bombay (2 vols, 1863-6), vol. I, no. 21. The same woman, posed in ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 150(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 150(21)
Title:
[Knife grinder, Bombay.] Photographer: Johnson and Henderson
Scope & Content:
Showing the knife grinder at work. This print has been trimmed to exclude the boy driving the grinding wheel (his feet are visible at the right of the print). For a reproduction of the whole image, see John Falconer, Ethnographical Photography in India 1850-1900 ('The Photographic Collector', vo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1856
Extent:
1 item

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