Portrait of Dr Alexander Hunter (b. 1816), Madras Medical Service. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait, showing Hunter seated at a table reading. Hunter was Superintendent of the Madras School of Industrial and, himself an accomplished photographer, was responsible for training Indian pupils in photography. He may well, therefore, have supervised ...
Portrait of Mrs Alexander Hunter. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait, seated beside a table and looking off to the left. Mrs Hunter was the wife of Alexander Hunter of the Madras Medical Service (see print 4541).
Photographic copy of a painting of the Right Revd. Reginald Heber (1783-1826), Bishop of Calcutta. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Photographic copy of a half-length portrait. Print in poor condition: faded and dirty. Is this a copy of T. Phillips' painting of 1823?
Non-photographic: engraved portrait of the botanist Robert Wight (1796-1872), Madras Medical Service.
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Genre: Portrait Photography Head and shoulders portrait, signed W.B. Gardner, from an unknown source. Wight served in the Madras Medical Service from 1819-53, and was also Superintendent of the Madras Botanical Garden.