COLONEL CONSTABLE

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COLONEL CONSTABLE

Costume studies and native types, late 1860s

Album containing sixty albumen prints, approx. 4 x 6 in., majority numbered in the negatives, titled in ink on mounts, photographer's ink stamp Colonel Constable, Kaiser-I-Hind, Photo Studio, Allahabad on inside front cover, half morocco, ruled in gilt, oblong 8vo. (lacking spine, re-taped).

拍品专文

Subjects include women at a well, a village dance, a 'Rutth' (wagon), a country boat, a man with performing monkeys, Fakirs, boys with buffaloes, Nautch girls, a potter, brick-making, tailors at work, pleasure boats in Calcutta, a carpenter, a Thermantidote (a heat measuring instrument), a barber, a 'Dawk Ghari' (horse-drawn carriage), Afghans, snake-charmers, performing bears, a 'Palkie' (Palanquin), elephants, camels, a camel, wrestlers, a Mahomedan with a hooka, a Boxwalla, bullocks, a bullock cart, dancing girls at a Hindu marriage, cloth-merchants, a knife-cleaner, a musician, chick-seller, 'coolies', sweet-meat-sellers, a Brahmin praying, a python, hill wood-sellers and a pilgrim with Ganges water.