拍品 345
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'Castes at Saugor', Indian and Burmese portraits, Burmese landscape and architecture, early 1860s

Album of 319 albumen prints, including a three-part panorama, 3 5/8 x 14 in., approximately 104 carte-de-visite-size, others 4¼ x 3 in. to 9 x 11½ in., a few trimmed to oval and with arched tops, two signed Craddock and Bourne in the negatives, eight magenta-toned, occasional ink titles with five pages entitled Castes at Saugor and two dated 1863 on mounts, half calf, ruled in gilt, oblong 4to.

拍品专文

Including forty identified 'Castes at Saugor', Indian tribesmen, soldiers, Burmese and Indian servants, family groups, men and women, portraits of officers of the 5th Madras Native Infantry serving in Burma, their wives and families, Burmese architectural and landscape studies including pagodas and ruins and views of military encampments in 'Thayetmyo' where the 5th MNI was stationed from December 1862.

This is probably the work of a capable amateur who appears to have been serving with the 5th Madras Native Infantry..