Photo 212/6

Modern buckram-bound volume measuring 520 x 455 mm, containing 40 albumen prints of architectural views and sculptural details at Seringapatam, Sravana Belgola, Belur, Halebid and Vijayanagara.The prints are mounted on card, within a tinted border with the printed legend, 'India by Captain Lyon.' A letterpress caption label, with Lyon's assigned number, is pasted beneath each image, with a lengthier letterpress descriptions of the subject of each photograph pasted on the verso of the mount. These longer descriptions are extracted from Lyon's 'Notes to accompany a series of photographs prepared to illustrate the ancient architecture of Southern India' (Marion and Co., London, 1870), edited by James Fergusson. This series of photographs (contained in eight volumes, APAC Photo 212/1-8) was commissioned by the Government of Madras in 1867, and the work undertaken by Lyon between November 1867 and July 1868.