Doorway of Buddhist Vihara, Cave XXIV, Ajanta, with Major Gill seated in entry. Photographer: Gill, Robert
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of doorway, with Gill seated on the ground leaning against the architrave, which is decorated with carved figures.
Genre: Architectural Photography Plate 87 of Lepel Griffin, 'Famous Monuments of Central India' (London, 1886). View of the Jhula Darwaza from the other side. Note the camera positioned by the left-hand column of the gateway. Duplicate at Photo 50/2 (148).
Carte-de-visite portrait of the photographer Colin Murray, probably taken in Calcutta. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length standing carte-de-visite portrait, showing Colin Roderick Murray (1840-1884) standing beside a table looking at a photograph album. Colin Murray, born on the island of Lewis, came to India as a photographer in around 1867. By 1871 he had joined t...
Photographer and monks at the Kalachkra Initiation, Tabo Monastery, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
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'A photographer and monks at the 1996 Kalachakra Initiation at Tabo Monastery. During the ten day festival, the Dalai Lama delivered a wide range of Buddhist teachings from the simplest and most down to earth to the most elaborate and transformative' (Patrick Sutherland).
[Reading Establishment Panorama, left half.] Photographer: Henneman, Nicolaas
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Inscription: Inscribed on verso: 'I. HW [Intensified by Harold White]/ Talbot's Photographic Establishment at Reading about 1845-6' [in pencil]. Genre: Portrait Photography One of two copies (prints 353 and 354) of this subject, taken in the backyard by the glasshouse of the premises at Russel...
[Reading Establishment Panorama, Left Half.] Photographer: Henneman, Nicolaas
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Inscription: Inscribed on verso: 'A/ 180mm wide'. Genre: Portrait Photography One of two copies (prints 353 and 354) of this subject, taken in the backyard by the glasshouse of the premises at Russell Terrace, it shows Talbot (far right) and three other men preparing to take portrait photograp...
[Reading Establishment Panorama, Right Half.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscription: Inscribed on verso: 'B in proto A'. Genre: Portrait Photography Taken in the backyard of the premises at Russell Terrace, Reading, this right-hand section of the panorama shows Henneman (centre) and four other men preparing photographs, with rows of prints out in the sun. Printed ...
[Daguerreotype portrait of Nicolaas Henneman.] Photographer: Claudet, Antoine François Jean
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Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length portrait of Nicolaas Henneman, seated in a leather arm chair, resting his right elbow on the arm of the chair and with his hand by his temple, looking towards the right. Sixth-plate daguerreotype, mounted in a burgundy leather case with the Adelaide Galle...
Daguerreotype portrait of William Henry Fox Talbot. Photographer: Claudet, Antoine François Jean
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Half-length portrait of William Henry Fox Talbot, wearing a top hat and with a monocle around his neck resting against his white waistcoat. He holds an open book in his right hand, while behind him is a studio backdrop of a landscape. Sixth-plate daguerreotype mounted in a navy leather case, wit...