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11. Photo 430/47

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/47
Title:
Curzon Collection: Album of views of Udaipur and Chittaurgarh. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Maroon full-leather album, 333x425mm, containing mounted prints with handwritten captions. The word 'Album' is stamped in gold on the front cover. The photographs are topographical and architectural views in and around Udaipur including the City Palace and lakes, the royal cenotaphs at Ahar and ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900s
Extent:
25 items

12. Photo 430/68

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/68
Title:
Curzon Collection: 'America' Photographer(s): Taber
Scope & Content:
Dark green and black half-leather bound album measuring 277x377mm, with 'America' stamped in gold on front cover. The verso of the front free endpaper is inscribed in Curzon's hand, 'Photographs of America (First Journey of G.N.C. round the world. 1887-8). The album (only partly filled) contains...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

13. Photo 430/52

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/52
Title:
Curzon Collection: 'Nepal Views, 1901.' Photographer(s): Herzog and Higgins
Scope & Content:
Green half-leather bound album measuring 365x497mm, some fading of album cloth (possibly due to damp), with title as above stamped in gold on front cover, together with photographers' credit reading, 'Herzog and Higgins. Mhow, C.I.' Bound at Education Society's Press, Byculla, Bombay. Prints are...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
30 items

14. Photo 430/88

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/88
Title:
Curzon Collection: Views of Government House, Calcutta, exterior and gates, illustrating restorations undertaken by Lord Curzon. Photographer(s): Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Collection of eight prints, uncaptioned, in excellent condition, lightly tipped onto thin card, blind embossed 'Bourne & Shepherd India'. Part of the original brown paper wrapping has the following pencilled note in Lord Curzon's hand: 'Government House Exterior & Gates on my time (after...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Early1900s
Extent:
8 items

15. Photo 430/58

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/58
Title:
Curzon Collection: 'The Curzon Bridge over the River Ganges at Allahabad. Allahabad-Fyzabad Railway'. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Maroon half-leather album, 307x425mm, containg mounted, dated prints, with handwritten captions. The title is stamped in gold on the front cover and the front free endpaper has the following note: 'The Curzon Bridge over the River Ganges at Allahabad. 15 spans of 200 feet. Started 8th November 1...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1902-1905
Extent:
88 items

16. Photo 430/85

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/85
Title:
Curzon Collection: Views of the North-West Frontier and the Gilgit-Chitral Frontier. Photographer(s): Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Collection consisting of: 1. Twenty-nine snapshot views of scenes and people in the North-West Frontier Province, originally contained in an envelope labelled 'N. W. Frontier Photos. (A. Ward).' With brief captions written on the reverse. The photographer was presumably Captain Arthur Ward (b. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1895-1901
Extent:
49 items

17. Photo 430/5

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/5
Title:
Curzon Collection: 'Ceylon, India'. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Black half-leather album, 280x372mm, containing mounted prints with captions in Curzon's own hand. The title is stamped in gold on the front cover. A note inside reads: 'Photographs of Ceylon and India (1st journey of G.N.C. Round the World, 1887-8)'. The photographs are mainly topographical and...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
29 items

18. Photo 430/36

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/36
Title:
Curzon Collection: 'Souvenir of Jaipur'. Photographer(s): Gobindram and Oodeyram
Scope & Content:
Full-leather album, 195x542mm, containing mounted prints with letterpress captions preceded by a letterpress introduction. The pages are interleaved with tissue with each print in a hand-painted floral border. The album, which is encased in a black, silk-lined box, has richly decorated covers in...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1905
Extent:
57 items

19. Photo 430/62

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/62
Title:
Curzon Collection: 'Victoria Memorial, Calcutta.' Photographer(s): Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
Black full-leather bound album, measuring 345x444mm, with title as above and three coats of arms stamped in gold on front cover. Covers somewhat bowed. The album is inscribed on the front endpaper, 'Presented to the Right Hon'ble Marquis Curzon with the warmest greetings of his old and loyal fri...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1922
Extent:
40 items

20. Photo 430/50

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/50
Title:
Curzon Collection: Views of Lucknow. Photographer(s): Lawrie and Company, G.W.
Scope & Content:
Black diced full-leather album, 278x375mm, containing mounted prints with handwritten captions. The album contains mostly architectural views in Lucknow, but also includes a group of Baillie Guard Pensioners and a Viceregal group portrait taken in December 1899. The album was presented to Mary C...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
27 items