JOHNSTON & HOFFMANN, VERNON & CO., LAWRIE, and others

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JOHNSTON & HOFFMANN, VERNON & CO., LAWRIE, and others

Portrait studies, mainly Maharajas, India, 1870s and later

Fifteen photographs, albumen and gelatin silver prints, 6¾ x 5½ in. to 14½ x 11½ in. or the reverse, the majority matted, two with photographers' blindstamp Vernon & Co...Bombay and wax seals on mounts, framed, including one with a faux-tortoiseshell wood frame, a wood-backed white-metal frame with coat of arms, and a decorative wood frame with ivory inlay, occasional manuscript or printed descriptive labels on verso; ten carbon print portraits of Maharajas, the Begum of Bhopal and a group portrait of the Khan of Khelat with chiefs and ministers, approx. 7½ x 5 in., mounted on card, ruled borders and printed titles on mounts, matted; with a quantity of loose albumen prints, each approx. 8½ x 11 in., the majority mounted on card, several titled in ink on mounts, two matted. (a lot)

拍品专文

The carbon print portraits are plates from Talboy & Wheeler's The Imperial Assemblage at Delhi, 1887 including portraits of 'H.H. the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir','H.H. the Maharaja Holkar of Indore', 'H.H. the Maharaja of Jaipur', 'H.H. the Maharaja of Jodhpur' and 'H.H. the Gaekwar of Baroda';'the late Maharaja of Puteeala', 'H.H. the late Raja of Sunth', Osman Ali, founder of the Osmania University in 1918; a group portrait at the Investiture of the Raja of Udaipur in 1871, British groups at various camps in India, 'The Lt. Governor of Bengal (Sir George Campbell), Secretaries & Staff', and a portrait of 'Sir Jung Bahadur & his favourite wife'.