A.T.W. PENN, BOURNE & SHEPHERD and others

细节

A.T.W. PENN, BOURNE & SHEPHERD and others

Views, architectural studies and portraits around Burma and Southern India, 1870s

Album containing twenty-nine albumen prints, five 4¾ x 3½, the remainder approx. 7½ x 11 in. to 9¼ x 11½ in. or the reverse, three signed Penn in the negatives, the majority titled in pencil on mounts, occasional tissue guards, half black morocco (worn and back cover damaged), numbered 109 on paper mounted to front cover, ruled in gilt, oblong 4to.; with a quantity of albumen print group portraits and views of India loosely inserted.

出版

The image of a boy in the bullock cart is illustrated in Singer, Burmah A Photographic Journey, p. 96 where attributed to Bourne and Shepherd.

拍品专文

Views around Rangoon, Mandalay, and Pagan including river scenes, waterfalls and architectural studies of 'The Shmie Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon', 'The Amanda Pagoda, Pagan', and 'Ruins of Pagan'; views of the hill station of Ootacamund and the Nilgiris; group portraits of tennis players and other European groups incuding one tableau vivant, a military band, a boy in a bullock cart and 'The Hairy Family, Mandalay'.

Albert Thomas Watson Penn (1849-1924), was a commercial photographer based at Ootacamund from circa 1876 - circa 1915. He also managed the Reliance Auction and Commission Agency and the Farlington Hotel in Ootacamund during the early years of this century. He was responsible for the views in this album of the hill station and Nilgiri Hills.