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Photo 449/2

Record Id:

040-003089962

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003089917

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100025866177.0x0009ea

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Photo 449/2

Title:

P. V. Luke Collection: Album of Afghan War and other Indian photographs. Photographer(s): Bengal Sappers and Miners

Scope & Content:

Maroon half leather bound album, album block detached from case, measuring 275x375mm. Most prints are mounted one to a page, with pencilled captions beneath. The contents of the album can be broadly broken as follows:

Prints 1-35 Second Afghan War scenes photographed by the Bengal Sappers & Miners. The majority of these images are duplicates of material in Photo 449/1.

Prints 36-51 Commercially produced topographical and architectural views at Gwalior, Agra, Cawnpore, Delhi, Lucknow and Rangoon, c.1870s-80s.

Prints 52-68 Studies of Gandharan sculpture from Sikri, Burmese wood carving, etc.

While Photo 449/1 and 2 were both received from the same source, it would appear that each album was compiled by different people. The albums themselves are in different styles, the duplication of material argues for two owners and the captions beneath the prints are in different hands.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003089917
040-003089962

Is part of:

Photo 449 : P. V. Luke Collection: Photographs relating to the Second Afghan War, together with other Indian views. Photographer(s): Bengal Sappers…

Photo 449/2 : P. V. Luke Collection: Album of Afghan War and other Indian photographs. Photographer(s): Bengal Sappers and Miners

Contains:

Click here to View / search full list of parts of Photo 449/2

Hierarchy:

032-003089917[0002]/040-003089962

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 449

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

68 items

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Techniques:

Albumen Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print

Start Date:

1870

End Date:

1899

Date Range:

1870s-1890s

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 92 mm x 67 mm to 230 mm x 582 mm

Source of Acquisition:

Presented to British Legation, Kabul, by Mrs P. V. Luke in 1933, and transferred from there to the India Office Library at an unspecified date.

Material Type:

Photographs

Legal Status:

Not Known

Names:

Bengal Sappers and Miners