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61. Photo 1228(58)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(58)
Title:
Honble. Robert Drummond BCS Commissioner. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length carte de visite portrait, seated against a cloth backdrop, of Robert Andrew John Drummond (1820-1887), Bengal Civil Service.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1865-1870
Extent:
1 item

62. Photo 1228(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(12)
Title:
Forest Trees of India. No. 2. Shorea robusta—Sâl tree. Second best timber in India. Satpoora hills. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Forest scene, with a large sal tree in the centre. With additional note: 'The sal forests of India were most extensive covering great areas in Southern India, Central India, the east coast and there is a wide belt all along the foot of the Himalayahs from Bengal to ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

63. Photo 1228(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(18)
Title:
[Forest Rees of India.] No. 9. Mangifera indica. - Mango grove. - Near Puchmurri [Pachmarhi]. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of grassy clearing with mango grove beyond, with additional note: 'Site of deserted village. This mango grove is very old & the trees of great height. The palm Phoenix sylvestris is over 100 feet high. The grass in front is 10 feet high.'
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

64. Photo 1228(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(19)
Title:
[Forest Trees of India.] No. 10. Dalbergia latifolia 'Siassa' - Bombay blackwood [and] young teak. Boree [Bori] Forest C.P. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of blackwood tree in a forest clearing, with a young teak tree in the right foreground. With additional note on album page beneath print: 'This beautiful broad leaved Dalbergia is the celebrated Bombay rosewood from which carved furniture is largely made. It gr...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

65. Photo 1228(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(11)
Title:
Forest Trees of India. No. 1. Michelia Champaca—Champac tree, Near Puchmurri [Pachmarhi], Sâthpoora hills. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'T. Webber' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography Forest scene with champac tree growing at the edge of a pool. With additional note: 'This tree (in centre) is the celebrated Champac, sung by poets and worshipped by Hindoos, its flowers are used on the altars.'
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

66. Photo 1228(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(14)
Title:
Forest Trees of India. No. 4. Eriodendron anfractuosum, 'safed simul,' white cotton tree [and] Boswellia or Thurifera. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Study of two trees in forest. With additional notes: 'Safed simul, white cotton tree. Flowers in Feby. before leaves appear. Timber light, used for toy making' and 'Boswellia or Thurifera, Salar,' common in CP, produces gum olileanum. Leafless in month of February.'...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

67. Photo 1228(22)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(22)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees.] No. 13. Tamarindus indica. Tamarind tree. Hoshungabad: bank of Nerbudda River. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'Webber' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View of a tamarind tree beside a path, with a European woman (possibly Webber's wife Matilda?) standing in its shade in the right foreground. The India figure standing in the left background, presumably a servant, is id...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

68. Photo 1228(40)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(40)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees, No. 28.] Phoenix sylvestris, the common palm, Central Provinces. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a stand of palm trees, with the roof of a tiled house visible in the background and an Indian figure seated on a rough wooden animal pen in the left foreground. With additional note written on album page beneath the print: 'The common date palm grows all ove...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

69. Photo 1228(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(2)
Title:
View in Cashmere [sunset view on Lake Manusbul]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'Bourne' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View across the Manus Bul Lake at sunset, with figures on the bank in the foreground. Unnumbered print, but probably no. 879 in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue, 'Lake Manusbul, evening.'
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1863
Extent:
1 item

70. Photo 1228(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(24)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees.] No. 15. Terminalia tomentosa. Saj tree. Boree [Bori] Forest. My camp. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of of a saj tree in a forest clearing, with Webber's tent on the right. With additional note on album page beneath print: 'Called 'asan' in Bengal. A very common beautiful & very lofty tree with very straight stem usually found with sal which it strongly re...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item