Search

032-003039394

21. Photo 11(78)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 11(78)
Title:
North side of Mount Jakko, Simla. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
View from Elysium Hill towards Jakko, Shimla, taken by Samuel Bourne in the 1860s. Mount Jakko, 2,450 m, is the highest peak in Shimla. The hill-station of Shimla, now the capital of the state of Himachal Pradesh, became a popular resort with British residents of India in the 1820s. It also beca...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1864
Extent:
1 item

22. Photo 11(82)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 11(82)
Title:
General view of Mussoorie and Landour. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
View of Mussorie and Landour, taken by Samuel Bourne in the 1860s. Mussorie in the Himalayas is perched on a horseshoe shaped ridge above the Doon valley at a height of 2,002 m. It has been a popular hill station since the1820s when the British military officer Captain Young laid the foundations...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1866
Extent:
1 item

23. Photo 11(87)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 11(87)
Title:
Snowy heights from the Wanga Valley. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Photograph of the snowy heights from Wanga Valley, taken by Samuel Bourne in 1863, on the last leg of his first Himalayan journey.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1863
Extent:
1 item

24. Photo 11(103)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 11(103)
Title:
Glacier in the Scinde Valley, Kashmir. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Photograph of a glacier in Kashmir, taken by Samuel Bourne in the 1860s.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1864
Extent:
1 item

25. Photo 11(117)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 11(117)
Title:
Snowy peaks near Gangootri from Bhairamghati. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
View along the valley towards distant peaks, the foreground dominated by pine trees. A note in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue states that this view was a, 'Prize photograph, 1867'.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1866
Extent:
1 item

26. Photo 11(45)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 11(45)
Title:
The Memorial Well, Cawnpore. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
View looking across the park towards the gothic screen enclosing Marochetti's sculpture (see print 44) over the memorial well at Cawnpore (Kanpur). With three Indian figures posed among the young trees in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1865
Extent:
1 item

27. Photo 11(67)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 11(67)
Title:
The Cashmere Gate, Delhi. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1357 in the negative.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1864
Extent:
1 item

28. 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

29. Photo 11(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 11(17)
Title:
Ootacamund from hill above Sylk's Hotel. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
General view of Ootacamund (Ooty) looking across the valley towards the lake above Sylks Hotel, taken by Samuel Bourne in 1869.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

30. Photo 11(111)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 11(111)
Title:
The Manirung Pass, elevation 18,600 feet. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
View of the top of the Pass, with three figures on a snow-covered plateau.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1866
Extent:
1 item