SKEEN & CO.

Ceylon, 1870s-80s

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SKEEN & CO.
Ceylon, 1870s-80s
Album containing seventy-seven albumen prints, 5 x 3 in. to 8 x 11 in. or the reverse, the majority numbered and/or titled and with photographer's credit in the negatives, numbered in pencil on mounts, printed label Photographs of Ceylon Scenery Published by W.S.H. Skeen & Co. (Photographers, & c.) 41 Chatham St., Colombo. mounted on front free end, manuscript list of titles loosely inserted, half black morocco, silver monogram HLM mounted to front cover, g.e., folio.

拍品专文

Comprising several river and harbour views, village scenes, a still life with fruit (illus.), four tree studies; several costume and portrait studies including one of a Kandyan chief, six of Singhalese girls, Buddhist monks, snake-charmers, a man with a bullock cart, a fruit-seller, a musician; and a few architectural studies and details of temples.