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121. Photo 11(120)

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Photo 11(120)
Title:
Range of snowy peaks above the Gangootri glacier. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
View looking across the moraine of the Gangotri Glacier towards snow-covered peaks rising beyond, taken by Samuel Bourne in the 1860s.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1866
Extent:
1 item

122. Photo 11(121)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 11(121)
Title:
A pleasant walk near Tukvar, Darjeeling. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Rear view of a European man walking along a woodland road near Darjeeling. Exhibited at the Bengal Photographic Society Exhibition of 1869, where it was praised as displaying 'an unusually perfect rendering of foliage.'
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1869
Extent:
1 item

123. Photo 11(122)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 11(122)
Title:
Picturesque bridge over the Rungnoo below Ging, Darjeeling. Photographer: Samuel Bourne.
Scope & Content:
View looking up the boulder-strewn stream towards a footbridge on which stand two European figures. This photograph won the Viceroy's Gold medal for the best photograph shown at the 1869 Bengal Photographic Society Exhibition, 'for it is certainly unequalled in artistic treatment of the subject ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item