拍品专文
A personal album compiled by Augustus John Lavie (b. 1842), a member of the 45th Nottinghamshire Regiment Sherwood Foresters, comprising several portrait studies of tribal and native types in Ceylon, Burma, India, and Malaya including the 'Ho tribe of Chybassa', 'Bendkar of Keonjhur', 'Shan of Burma', Andaman islanders and two photographs of Todas possibly by Alexander Hunter; portraits of native royalty and dignitaries including the King of Siam, and the Prime Minister of Burma; several decoratively hand-painted photographs, probably by C. Iyahsawmy, photographer at the Madras School of Arts in the late 1850s-60s who had worked as Tripe's assistant and was taught the collodion process by Dr. A.J. Scott.
The Burmese studio portraits are the work of J. Jackson, a firm established in Rangoon c.1865, and which in the early 1900s claimed to be the longest established firm in Burma. A number of the ethnographical studies are the work of Tosco Peppé, who arrived in India in 1866 and worked in the indigo, tea and estate management business in Chota Nagpur. He was sent by Colonel Edward Tuite Dalton to photograph Juang tribespeople, several of which appeared as lithographs in Dalton's Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal published in Calcutta in 1872. The album includes at least one photograph of a member of Dalton's staff, and other references to Dalton.
The Burmese studio portraits are the work of J. Jackson, a firm established in Rangoon c.1865, and which in the early 1900s claimed to be the longest established firm in Burma. A number of the ethnographical studies are the work of Tosco Peppé, who arrived in India in 1866 and worked in the indigo, tea and estate management business in Chota Nagpur. He was sent by Colonel Edward Tuite Dalton to photograph Juang tribespeople, several of which appeared as lithographs in Dalton's Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal published in Calcutta in 1872. The album includes at least one photograph of a member of Dalton's staff, and other references to Dalton.