拍品 344
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FRANCIS ROBERT GRIFFITH and another

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FRANCIS ROBERT GRIFFITH and another

Views and architectural studies around India, circa 1857-63

Eleven waxed or partially waxed paper negatives, each approx. 9 x 12 in. or the reverse, two on paper with watermark R. Turner Patent Talbotype, five signed F.Griffith and/or initialled F.G., six titled, one dated July 1863 and with technical details and five numbered in ink/pencil on verso; with one other waxed paper negative, 8 x 10 in., dated Nov. 15. 57 and annotated [?Buckle], possibly a reference to Buckle's negative process. (11)

拍品专文

Titles and numbers where given are as follows: 'Malabar Point'. 'No. 7 Elephanta', 'No. 20 Bassein', 'No. 40 Wall', 'No. 50 Beejapoor' and 'No. 91 The Ferry Beypoor - Malabar Coast'.

A member of the Public Works Department, Francis R. Griffith was an amateur photographer who took architectural and topographical photographs during his travels in the course of his work in the later 1850s.