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Photo 17/3

Record Id:

040-003040150

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003040099

MDARK:

ark:/81055/dvdc_100018239929.0x000d2b

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Photo 17/3

Title:

Kitchener of Khartoum Collection: 'Views of Benares. Presented by the Maharaja of Benares'. Photographer(s): Prasad, Madho

Scope & Content:

Full-leather album, 360 x 485 mm, containing mounted prints with letterpress captions. The title and a floral border are stamped in gold on the front cover. A label on the inside front cover reads: 'Presented to the India Office Library by the Rt. Hon. the Earl Kitchener of Khartoon [sic] on 1 October 1959', however the album was actually presented by his son Lord Kitchener. A small label on the same page reads: 'Bound at the Caxton Works, Bombay'. The photographs mainly depict views of the river front at Varanasi but include architectural studies and views from the Buddhist stupa at Sarnath. Forty of the forty-one prints are duplicated in Photo 10/6 in the Reading Collection. There is an additional copy of this album at Mss Eur E267/189.

Note on dating: Several prints in the album date back to at least 1883. Prints 7, 8, 11–13 also appear in Photo 177, an album dated January 1883. A number of other views are probably also of this period.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003040099
040-003040150

Is part of:

Photo 17 : Kitchener of Khartoum Collection: Views in India. Photographer(s): Bourne and Shepherd

Photo 17/3 : Kitchener of Khartoum Collection: 'Views of Benares. Presented by the Maharaja of Benares'. Photographer(s): Prasad, Madho

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-003040099[0003]/040-003040150

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 17

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

41 items

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Techniques:

Gelatin Silver Print
Photograph
Photographic Print

Start Date:

1880

End Date:

1910

Date Range:

1880s-1900s

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 205 mm x 150 mm to 290 mm x 247 mm

Source of Acquisition:

Gift, 1959: Presented by Lord Kitchener, 1 October 1959.

Material Type:

Photographs

Legal Status:

Not Known

Names:

Prasad, Madho