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11. Photo 29(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 29(7)
Title:
The Esplanade and Government House from Chowringhee [Calcutta]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1704 in the negative. View from the north end of Chowringhee Road beside the carriage stand, looking north-west across the Dhurrumtollah Tank towards the façades of houses along Esplanade Row, with Government House at the extreme left. The flat-fronted, v...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

12. Photo 29(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 29(8)
Title:
Government House [Calcutta], South Front. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1705 in the negative. General view of the Maidan-facing facade of Government House, with servants erecting a marquee or shamiana in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

13. Photo 29(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 29(9)
Title:
Government House from the Garden [Calcutta]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1706 in the negative. Similar to print 8, but taken from a slightly more distant viewpoint, looking across the garden towards Government House, the building partially obscured by a palm in foreground. With two cows grazing on the lawn and the tent seen in...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

14. Photo 29(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 29(10)
Title:
Government House with the Eastern Gateway [Calcutta]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1707 in the negative. View from Esplanade Row and Government Place, looking towards Government House, with the east gate (an archway flanked by twin Doric columns and surmounted by a lion) in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

15. Photo 29(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 29(11)
Title:
The Cathedral and Bishop's Palace [Calcutta]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1708 in the negative. View from the Maidan near the Lower Circular Road, looking north across the Birjee Tank towards St Paul's Cathedral on the left, with the Bishop's Palace (with hexastyle Ionic portico) on Chowringhee Road to the right.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

16. Photo 29(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 29(15)
Title:
The Cathedral [Calcutta]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1712 in the negative. General view from Chowringhee Road of the east and and north facades of St Paul's Cathedral.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

17. Photo 29(24b)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 29(24b)
Title:
Chowringhee Road. Panoramic view from the [Ochterlony] Monument [Calcutta]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1721 in the negative. Seventh part of Bourne's panoramic view from the Ochterlony Monument, looking in a south-easterly direction along Chowringhee Road. Duplicate of print 24a. Exhibited, Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol, India: Pioneering Photog...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1868-1869
Extent:
1 item

18. Photo 29(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 29(25)
Title:
Medical College Hospital [Calcutta]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1722 in the negative. General view of the Medical College Hospital in College Street, an imposing classical building raised in a platform, with a prostyle portico and columns running the length of the facade.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

19. Photo 29(32)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 29(32)
Title:
St John's Church [Calcutta]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1729 in the negative. General view of St John's Church, formerly the cathedral church, built in 1787 and modelled on St Martin-in-the-Fields in London. In the foreground is the carriage porch built on to the west end of the building in 1797. The colonnade...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

20. Photo 29(43)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 29(43)
Title:
Great Eastern Hotel and Old Court House Street [Calcutta]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1740 in the negative. View looking north along Old Court House Street towards St Andrew's Church in the distance, with the Great Eastern Hotel and the premises of Cuthbertson and Harper in the right foreground and a hack ghari stand in left foreground. E...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item