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41. Photo 150(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 150(18)
Title:
[Brahmani women, Bombay.] Photographer: Johnson and Henderson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length portrait of two Brahmin women posed on the steps of a house. Duplicate at Photo 140 (49), where the print is used in an issue of The Indian amateur's photographic album. This print is also used in William Johnson's The Oriental Races and Tribes. Res...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

42. Photo 150(30)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 150(30)
Title:
[Head and shoulders portrait of an unidentified woman.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Subjects = paintings and drawings; unidentified
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 item

43. Photo 150(48)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 150(48)
Title:
[Portrait of an unidentified man.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Subjects = unidentified
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 item

44. Photo 150(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 150(14)
Title:
Jhansi - where the captives were murdered in 1857. Photographer: J., G.M.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Group of Jain temples. This is probably one of the series of views of scenes at Jhansi associated with the Mutiny which was offered for sale by 'G.M.J.' in The Englishman of 26 July 1859, perhaps the print described as Jhokun Bagh Gosaen Tombs - across the road from...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1859
Extent:
1 item

45. Photo 150(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 150(17)
Title:
[The Brahmachari Bawa, Vishnu Bhiku, Bombay.] Photographer: Johnson and Henderson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Studio portrait of two men. This photograph also appears as no. 17 in 'The Indian Amateur's Photographic Album' (1856-58) as part of the 'Costumes and Characters of Western India' series, with the following letterpress description: 'Vishnu Bhiku, well known o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

46. Photo 150(41)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 150(41)
Title:
[Portrait of an unidentified woman.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated portrait, possibly of Louisa Compton in mourning (in which case the date would be 1862 or later). Very light hand-colouring to cheeks. Subjects = dress (European)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 item

47. Photo 150(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 150(21)
Title:
[Knife grinder, Bombay.] Photographer: Johnson and Henderson
Scope & Content:
Showing the knife grinder at work. This print has been trimmed to exclude the boy driving the grinding wheel (his feet are visible at the right of the print). For a reproduction of the whole image, see John Falconer, Ethnographical Photography in India 1850-1900 ('The Photographic Collector', vo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1856
Extent:
1 item

48. Photo 150(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 150(20)
Title:
[Studio portrait of a Parsi woman and child, Bombay.] Photographer: Johnson and Henderson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length portrait of mother and child. The woman in this photograph appears as a member of a group of Parsi women in William Johnson's The Oriental Races and Tribes: residents and visitors of Bombay (2 vols, 1863-6), vol. I, no. 21. The same woman, posed in ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

49. Photo 150(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 150(10)
Title:
The Ooncha [sic for Orchha] Gate, Jhansi. The 3rd Bombay Europeans assaulted the Fort on either side of this Gate. Photographer: J., G.M.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography This appears to one of the series of views of scenes at Jhansi associated with the Mutiny which was offered for sale by 'G.M.J.' in The Englishman of 26 July 1859. The print corresponds in size and other details to the photograph described in that advertisement ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1859
Extent:
1 item

50. Photo 150(28)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 150(28)
Title:
[Group portrait of four Europeans.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Subjects =
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 item