BOURNE, PENN and others

Album relating to the Governor of Madras, 1877-79

细节

BOURNE, PENN and others
Album relating to the Governor of Madras, 1877-79
Album of fifty-two albumen prints, the majority around 9 x 11 in., but including fifteen smaller prints, ten signed and/or numbered in the negatives by Bourne, ten signed and/or numbered in the negatives by Penn, ink manuscript captions with occasional dates, half green morocco, gilt, large 4to.

出版

Worswick, The Last Empire, pp. 46, 47 and 83 (each illus.)

拍品专文

Including group portraits of the Governor, his A.D.C.s and entourage at the Delhi Assemblage, January 1877 and at Government House, Guindy Park, 1878; his State elephant and banner; views of Government House including the gardens and a staff picnic at Ootacamund; a portrait titled The Arnee Jahiredar & his Wife; the Duke, Lady Anne and Lady Caroline Grenville on horseback; rice bags on the beach at Madras during the famine in 1877; and views at Agra (the Taj), Delhi, Lucknow, Cawnpore, Trichinopoly, Tanjore including the Great temple and bull (illus.) and Vellore.