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Photo 515/1

Record Id:

040-003097483

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003097482

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100025910660.0x000519

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Photo 515/1

Title:

Ernest Binfield Havell Collection: Album of Indian views and arts and crafts. Photographer(s): Nicholas and Company

Scope & Content:

Red half-leather bound album measuring 280x385mm, spine piece missing and covers loose and with considerable worm damage to boards (although prints on the whole are unaffected). The album contains two sequences of prints starting from each end of the volume and may have been compiled by an additional owner to Havell. The album has now been numbered in a single numerical sequence which breaks down as follows:

Prints 1-38 Portraits of South Indian types and trades, with a few landscape views and some studies from Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 1870s-80s. Photographs by Nicholas & Co., W.H.L. Skeen & Co. (a few signed), the majority unknown.

Prints 39-56 Photographs of carved wood furniture, metalware and jewellery made at the Madras School of Arts, 1884-92, with pencilled captions in Ernest Havell's hand. Havell (1861-1934) was Superintendent of the Madras School of Arts during this period. The fixed endpaper of this half of the album is signed 'E. B. Havell c/o H. King & Co. 45 Pall Mall'.

Ernest Binfield Havell (1861-1934) served in the Indian Educational Service. He was Superintendent of the Madras School of Arts 1884-92 and Principal of the Calcutta School of Arts from 1896-1906.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003097482
040-003097483

Is part of:

Photo 515 : Ernest Binfield Havell Collection: Indian and Sri Lankan photographs.

Photo 515/1 : Ernest Binfield Havell Collection: Album of Indian views and arts and crafts. Photographer(s): Nicholas and Company

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-003097482[0001]/040-003097483

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

56 items

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Techniques:

Albumen Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print

Start Date:

1880

End Date:

1899

Date Range:

1880s-1890s

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 114 mm x 85 mm to 237 mm x 292 mm

Source of Acquisition:

Presented by Mr B. Vibert

Material Type:

Photographs

Legal Status:

Not Known

Names:

Nicholas and Company