LIEUT. J. WATERHOUSE and others

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LIEUT. J. WATERHOUSE and others

Portraits of Bhopal royalty, nobility and genre studies of native types, circa mid 1860s

Twenty-eight albumen prints, the majority approx. 4½ x 7 in., two numbered and with GYA Fakir in the negative, the remainder titled in pencil on verso, seven matted. (28)

出版

Watson and Kaye, The People of India vol. VII pl. nos. 365, 367, 370-372, 382 (where attributed to Lieut. Waterhouse and said to be one of his best pictures), 385, 386, 388-391, and 394; Worswick & Embree, The Last Empire, p. 18 (illus.)

展览

New York, The Asia House Gallery, The Last Empire, Photography in British India, 1855-1911, 1976.

拍品专文

Portraits include Shah Jehan, the Begum of Bhopal (one of the very few ruling women in 19th century India), her husband Nawab Oomrao Dulha, her children, and her great grandchildren; portraits of Rajput noblemen, Mahrattas of Indore, Bunnias of Western India and several portraits of native types.

Several of the portraits are subjects later copied for inclusion in J. Forbes Watson and Sir John William Kaye, The People of India (see lot 284 and 349). Seven portraits of royalty, one of which is attributed to Lieut. Waterhouse, would appear to be by the same photographer. The other photographs look like the work of at least four other photographers.