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51. Photo 28/2(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 28/2(19)
Title:
Native Bankers, Delhi. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'Shepherd & Robertson' (heavily cropped) in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Full-length seated portrait of four merchants.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

52. Photo 28/2(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 28/2(20)
Title:
The Maharajah of Benares and Suite. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of Raja Ishwari Prasad Narayan Singh (1825-1889, succeeded as minor 1835), seated and holding a hookah in his left hand, in the company of six officials.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

53. Photo 28/2(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 28/2(21)
Title:
Armed knights in the service of the Rajah of Sumptna [Samthar?]. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Full-length seated portrait of four military officers, wearing armour and holding swords. The state name given in the caption cannot be readily located although a suggested version is Samthar in Central India.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

54. Photo 28/2(22)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 28/2(22)
Title:
Three of Sir Bhadoors favorite wives and his youngest son [Nepal]. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of four members of Sir Jang Bahadur's family, flanked by two female servants holding furled umbrellas and posed in front of a tent. A modern note below the caption identifies one of the women as possibly his daughter and refers for comparison to the po...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1871
Extent:
1 item

55. Photo 28/2(23)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 28/2(23)
Title:
Cashmere females. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '809' in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Bourne no. 809. Group portrait of Kashmiri women, seated and standing on a rug in front of an unidentified building, presumably at Srinagar. This is probably the group of nautch girls described by Bourne a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1864
Extent:
1 item

56. Photo 28/2(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 28/2(24)
Title:
Nautch girl and Musicians [Delhi]. Photographer: Shepherd, Charles
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a dancer and two musicians, taken at the same location as print 15. Exhibited Museum of Sydney, Encountering India, 16 May - 17 August 1997.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

57. Photo 28/2(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 28/2(25)
Title:
Group of Bhooteas, Darjeeling. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered 'Bourne 1904' in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Formally posed group of two men and two women, in front of a house at Darjeeling.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1868
Extent:
1 item

58. Photo 28/2(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 28/2(26)
Title:
Group of Bhooteas and Nepaulese. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered 'Bourne 1906' in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group portrait of five men and two women, posed in front of a doorway, beyond which can be seen a stack of wooden crates (presumably containing tea). The two women, probably estate labou...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1868
Extent:
1 item

59. Photo 28/2(27)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 28/2(27)
Title:
Group of native Thugs. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Group portrait of seven thugs sitting on a rug. An unnumbered print, but almost certainly Bourne No.128, listed in the catalogue as having been taken at Simla. See also Photo 127 (67), for a carte de visite portrait of this group. The carpet on which they are seated is presumably a visual refer...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1863
Extent:
1 item

60. Photo 28/2(28)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 28/2(28)
Title:
Natives of the Peshawur Valley. Photographer: Shepherd, Charles
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '1388' in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group portrait of Afridi men, seated and standing in front of a mud house, several armed with jezails and shields. No.1388 in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue and there described as, 'Group of Natives fr...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item