Jabalpoor, Marble Rocks on Nerbadda at Bhera Ghat. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography View along the river at the Marble Rocks. [Albumen print, 285x230mm]. Subjects = Bowring Collection; landscape features; river scenes; rock formations Location = Bheraghat; India; Madhya Pradesh; Marble Rocks; Narmada (river)
Sham Singh Atareewala - killed at Sobraon, 1846 [miniature painting on ivory].
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Genre: Portrait Photography Head and shoulders profile portrait. Small oval miniature on ivory. Subjects = Bowring Collection; miniature paintings; non-photographic material; paintings and drawings; Sikhs
Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length seated carte-de-visite portrait, holding a book. Bowring's daughter Mary Lucy Bowring, was born at 3 Middleton Street, Calcutta on 7 November 1859. She died in London, 7 March 1893. [Albumen print, 54x93mm]. Subjects = Bowring Collection
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait, standing beside a portable bookshelf. Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere (1815-1884) was a member of the Governor-General's Supreme Council from 1859-62. This portrait was also used as the frontispiece illustration of the 'Journal of the Bengal Photo...
View on the Jhilam, Srinagar [View on the Dal Canal]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Genre: Landscape Photography Bourne's catalogue title for this view is, 'View on the Canal.' The catalogue also notes that this was a prize photograph in the Bengal Photographic Society Exhibition of 1865.
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated portrait, reading a book. This is Lewin Bowring's uncle Charles Bowring (1806-1858), and the photograph was presumably taken at Exeter, where the young Lewin was sent to live with his grandfather. Their second son Charles worked in the family busin...