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1. Photo 28/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 28/2
Title:
Photograph Album: 'India. Groups. 1874'. Photographer(s): Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Maroon half-leather album, 345 x 500 mm, containing 39 mounted albumen prints with neat handwritten captions. The title is stamped in gilt on a leather label laid down on the front cover. It is possible that this album was bought directly from the Bourne and Shepherd studios as it resembles othe...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1863-1870
Extent:
39 items

2. Photo 28/2(38)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 28/2(38)
Title:
Moulvies. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of three men, seated on a carpet, with books spread out before them. This photograph also appears in John Forbes Watson and John William Kaye, 'The People of India' (8 volumes, London, 1868-75), but without the background wall bleached out, a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1863
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 28/2(35)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 28/2(35)
Title:
Native acrobats. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) View showing an acrobat balancing on top of a long pole erected in a courtyard, with a figure at the base playing a drummer. No.1101 in the Bourne & Shepherd catalogue.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1863
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 28/2(36)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 28/2(36)
Title:
Snake charmers. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered 'Shepherd & Robertson Photo: 1123' in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of two snake charmers performing. Also published in John Forbes Watson and John William Kaye, 'The People of India' (8 volumes, London, 1868-75) and the...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1863
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 28/2(37)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 28/2(37)
Title:
Mahomedans [playing chess], Delhi. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered 'Shepherd & Robertson: 1109' in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait group of five figures gathered round a chess board. No.1109 in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue. Subjects = chess; recreations
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1863
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 28/2(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 28/2(19)
Title:
Native Bankers, Delhi. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'Shepherd & Robertson' (heavily cropped) in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Full-length seated portrait of four merchants.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 28/2(39)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 28/2(39)
Title:
Shrofs, money changers. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'Shepherd & Robertson Photo' in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of two men seated in conversation on a wooden couch. This photograph is also reproduced in John Forbes Watson and John William Kaye, 'The People of India' (8 volumes, Lond...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1863
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 28/2(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 28/2(24)
Title:
Nautch girl and Musicians [Delhi]. Photographer: Shepherd, Charles
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a dancer and two musicians, taken at the same location as print 15. Exhibited Museum of Sydney, Encountering India, 16 May - 17 August 1997.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 28/2(23)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 28/2(23)
Title:
Cashmere females. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '809' in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Bourne no. 809. Group portrait of Kashmiri women, seated and standing on a rug in front of an unidentified building, presumably at Srinagar. This is probably the group of nautch girls described by Bourne a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1864
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 28/2(33)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 28/2(33)
Title:
Viceroy's elephants with their state trappings. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Group of five elephants with howdahs and decorative trappings. Unnumbered, but corresponding to No.1132D from the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item