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DELHI, KOLKATA, AGRA - NINETEENTH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHY Collection of 39 good views and "types", comprising Kolkata (9), Delhi (5), Agra (11, one by Bourne & Shepherd), Varanasi (5, 2 by Bourne and Shepherd), Mumbai (3), Chennai, Sri Lanka (4), and a portrait of Sha-Jehan after an Indian miniature, [third quarter of the nineteenth century) (39) image 1
DELHI, KOLKATA, AGRA - NINETEENTH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHY Collection of 39 good views and "types", comprising Kolkata (9), Delhi (5), Agra (11, one by Bourne & Shepherd), Varanasi (5, 2 by Bourne and Shepherd), Mumbai (3), Chennai, Sri Lanka (4), and a portrait of Sha-Jehan after an Indian miniature, [third quarter of the nineteenth century) (39) image 2
DELHI, KOLKATA, AGRA - NINETEENTH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHY Collection of 39 good views and "types", comprising Kolkata (9), Delhi (5), Agra (11, one by Bourne & Shepherd), Varanasi (5, 2 by Bourne and Shepherd), Mumbai (3), Chennai, Sri Lanka (4), and a portrait of Sha-Jehan after an Indian miniature, [third quarter of the nineteenth century) (39) image 3
DELHI, KOLKATA, AGRA - NINETEENTH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHY Collection of 39 good views and "types", comprising Kolkata (9), Delhi (5), Agra (11, one by Bourne & Shepherd), Varanasi (5, 2 by Bourne and Shepherd), Mumbai (3), Chennai, Sri Lanka (4), and a portrait of Sha-Jehan after an Indian miniature, [third quarter of the nineteenth century) (39) image 4
DELHI, KOLKATA, AGRA - NINETEENTH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHY Collection of 39 good views and "types", comprising Kolkata (9), Delhi (5), Agra (11, one by Bourne & Shepherd), Varanasi (5, 2 by Bourne and Shepherd), Mumbai (3), Chennai, Sri Lanka (4), and a portrait of Sha-Jehan after an Indian miniature, [third quarter of the nineteenth century) (39) image 5
DELHI, KOLKATA, AGRA - NINETEENTH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHY Collection of 39 good views and "types", comprising Kolkata (9), Delhi (5), Agra (11, one by Bourne & Shepherd), Varanasi (5, 2 by Bourne and Shepherd), Mumbai (3), Chennai, Sri Lanka (4), and a portrait of Sha-Jehan after an Indian miniature, [third quarter of the nineteenth century) (39) image 6
DELHI, KOLKATA, AGRA - NINETEENTH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHY Collection of 39 good views and "types", comprising Kolkata (9), Delhi (5), Agra (11, one by Bourne & Shepherd), Varanasi (5, 2 by Bourne and Shepherd), Mumbai (3), Chennai, Sri Lanka (4), and a portrait of Sha-Jehan after an Indian miniature, [third quarter of the nineteenth century) (39) image 7
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DELHI, KOLKATA, AGRA - NINETEENTH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHY
Collection of 39 good views and "types", comprising Kolkata (9), Delhi (5), Agra (11, one by Bourne & Shepherd), Varanasi (5, 2 by Bourne and Shepherd), Mumbai (3), Chennai, Sri Lanka (4), and a portrait of Sha-Jehan after an Indian miniature, [third quarter of the nineteenth century) (39)

14 September 2021, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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DELHI, KOLKATA, AGRA - NINETEENTH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHY

Collection of 39 good views and "types", comprising Kolkata (9), Delhi (5), Agra (11, one by Bourne & Shepherd), Varanasi (5, 2 by Bourne and Shepherd), Mumbai (3), Chennai, Sri Lanka (4), and a portrait of Sha-Jehan after an Indian miniature, albumen prints (3 signed in the image by Bourne and Shepherd, the remainder anonymous), mounted one per page, captioned in French in a nineteeth century hand in border, variable sizes (largest 240 x 290mm., smallest c. 110 x 160mm.), sheet size 30 x 485mm., [third quarter of the nineteenth century) (39)

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Views include; Esplanade Road (showing Bourne and Shepherd's studio), and a lively street view Bombay; shopkeepers at Galle, Ceylon; Two views of the Temple Ghats, and 2 merchant shops, Varanasi; Grand Mosque, Qutub, Iron Pillar, Delhi; the port, street scenes, Colonial buildings (including General Post Office with scaffolding). Kolkata; Sikandra, Grand Mosque, street boutique, Taj Mahal (8), Agra.

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