Mahomedans [playing chess], Delhi. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
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Inscription: Signed and numbered 'Shepherd & Robertson: 1109' in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait group of five figures gathered round a chess board. No.1109 in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue. Subjects = chess; recreations
Rajput men playing the game of Puchesee. Photographer: Eugene Clutterbuck Impey.
Scope & Content:
Duplicate of plate 67(a) of Impey's Delhi, Agra, and Rajpootana, Illustrated by Eighty Photographs (Cundall, Downes, & Co., London, 1865). 'Recd. from Messrs. Cundall & Downes 8/4/65.' Print shown at Paris Exhibition of 1867.
Rajput men playing the game of Puchesee. Photographer: Eugene Clutterbuck Impey.
Scope & Content:
Duplicate of plate 67(a) of Impey's Delhi, Agra, and Rajpootana, illustrated by eighty photographs (Cundall, Downes, & Co., London, 1865). 'Recd. from Capt. Impey 12/6/69'. Another copy of this print at print 5353.
A Tennis Party at Kasauli, near Simla, 1898. Photographer: Bell Brothers
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Inscription: Signed 'Bell Bros.' in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of party posed at the edge of a tennis court, many holding tennis raquets.
Mahomedans [Delhi]. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Shepherd & Robertson, Photo: 1109 in the negative. Full-length studio portrait of a group of men wearing Islamic dress and playing chess.
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of three seated women, one holding a samisen (a guitar-like instrument), the other two demonstrating the hand movements involved in the game.