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INDIA, SINGAPORE AND THAILAND - PHOTOGRAPHY Nineteenth century photograph views in India (61, including 4-part panorama of Ooty by A.T.W. Penn), Penang (6), Singapore (10), and Siam/Thailand (23), [1880s] image 1
INDIA, SINGAPORE AND THAILAND - PHOTOGRAPHY Nineteenth century photograph views in India (61, including 4-part panorama of Ooty by A.T.W. Penn), Penang (6), Singapore (10), and Siam/Thailand (23), [1880s] image 2
INDIA, SINGAPORE AND THAILAND - PHOTOGRAPHY Nineteenth century photograph views in India (61, including 4-part panorama of Ooty by A.T.W. Penn), Penang (6), Singapore (10), and Siam/Thailand (23), [1880s] image 3
INDIA, SINGAPORE AND THAILAND - PHOTOGRAPHY Nineteenth century photograph views in India (61, including 4-part panorama of Ooty by A.T.W. Penn), Penang (6), Singapore (10), and Siam/Thailand (23), [1880s] image 4
INDIA, SINGAPORE AND THAILAND - PHOTOGRAPHY Nineteenth century photograph views in India (61, including 4-part panorama of Ooty by A.T.W. Penn), Penang (6), Singapore (10), and Siam/Thailand (23), [1880s] image 5
INDIA, SINGAPORE AND THAILAND - PHOTOGRAPHY Nineteenth century photograph views in India (61, including 4-part panorama of Ooty by A.T.W. Penn), Penang (6), Singapore (10), and Siam/Thailand (23), [1880s] image 6
INDIA, SINGAPORE AND THAILAND - PHOTOGRAPHY Nineteenth century photograph views in India (61, including 4-part panorama of Ooty by A.T.W. Penn), Penang (6), Singapore (10), and Siam/Thailand (23), [1880s] image 7
INDIA, SINGAPORE AND THAILAND - PHOTOGRAPHY Nineteenth century photograph views in India (61, including 4-part panorama of Ooty by A.T.W. Penn), Penang (6), Singapore (10), and Siam/Thailand (23), [1880s] image 8
INDIA, SINGAPORE AND THAILAND - PHOTOGRAPHY Nineteenth century photograph views in India (61, including 4-part panorama of Ooty by A.T.W. Penn), Penang (6), Singapore (10), and Siam/Thailand (23), [1880s] image 9
INDIA, SINGAPORE AND THAILAND - PHOTOGRAPHY Nineteenth century photograph views in India (61, including 4-part panorama of Ooty by A.T.W. Penn), Penang (6), Singapore (10), and Siam/Thailand (23), [1880s] image 10
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INDIA, SINGAPORE AND THAILAND - PHOTOGRAPHY
Nineteenth century photograph views in India (61, including 4-part panorama of Ooty by A.T.W. Penn), Penang (6), Singapore (10), and Siam/Thailand (23), [1880s]

7 – 15 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

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INDIA, SINGAPORE AND THAILAND - PHOTOGRAPHY

Nineteenth century photograph views in India (61, including 4-part panorama of Ooty by A.T.W. Penn), Penang (6), Singapore (10), and Siam/Thailand (23), albumen prints, 55 large (202 x 270mm.) mounted one per page, 25 half-page (approx. 135 x 215mm.) mostly mounted 2 per page, 12 smaller mounted 5 per page, printed captions on mounts (some corrected in pencil), contemporary calf-backed cloth, worn, lacks spine, oblong folio, [1880s]

Footnotes

India views include Ootacamund/Ooty (11, including a 4-part panorama by A.T.W. Penn [see C. Penn, The Nicholas Brothers & A. T. W. Penn: photographers of South India 1855–1885, 2014, p.50]; a portrait group of Todas, and a view of a Toda village), Coonoor (1), Darjeeling (9, including 5 of St. Paul's School), Pondicherry pier (1), Kolkata (24, including 7 relating to the Calcutta Exhibition of 1883/4 with a view of the grounds, group portraits of the "Native Exhibitors" and "European Exhibitors", the entrance to the India Section, etc; and major buildings such as the Mint, Great Eastern Hotel, etc.), Agra and environs (12, smaller).

Penang views include the harbour, St. George's Church, Edinburgh House, Pryor River, and waterfalls.

Singapore views include bird's-eye views across the city (3, one of the eastern part, one from the fort), Government House, the Cathedral, botanical gardens, and Mr. Cheang Hong Lim's garden.

Thailand views include portraits of King Chulalongkorn (Rana V), his "2nd and Favo[u]rite Wife", the King's Palace (3, one showing parading troops and the Wats, one a bathing festival on the river for the coming of age ceremony of the Prince), Buddhist temple, hair cutting ceremony for the coming of age ceremony of the Crown Prince King Chulalongkorn (1888), "Siamese Priests", Elephant Keddah (5).

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