Attributed to BOURNE & SHEPHERD and others

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Attributed to BOURNE & SHEPHERD and others

Portraits of Nepalese princes, circa 1880s-circa 1910

Five albumen prints and one gelatin silver print photomontage, sizes approx. 10¼ x 9¼ in. to 13½ x 11 in. or the reverse, one mounted on card, two identified in pencil on verso, one matted. (6)

拍品专文

Including two seated portraits of Sir Jang Bahadur (1816-1877), Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of Nepal (1856-77) and his wife, a standing full-figure portrait of Maharaja Ranudip Singh (d. 1885) who succeeded his brother in these posts in 1877, and a group with Ranbir Jang, son of Sir Jang Bahadur. In the photomontage, the Nepalese ruler Chandra Shumshire is superimposed on the peak of a Himalayan mountain, illustrated in a painting. Chandra Shumshire was a popular leader who was killed in a coup led by his brother.