Beschreibung:

Charles Shepherd (active 1858 - 1878), Arthur Robertson and Colin Murray (1840 - 1884). People of India. 1863-1873. 11 albumen prints. Each circa 19 x 24 cm and 24 x 19 cm. Most signed and with number in the negative in lower left/right corner, mounted to both sides of album board (traces of use and brittle), each annotated in ink on the mount. The images include: Udasees (1127), Embroiderer (1125), Hairy Family of Mandalay (2361), Burmese Box Makers (2342), Gujur Sirdars, Bharatpur (1129), Indian Carriage (1128), Lodas (1119), Rajpoots (1120), Banjas Shop (1121), Sausies (1122) and Rungruges Dyers (1103). – Slightly faded, otherwise in good condition. Lit.: Ulrich Pohlmann/Dietmar Siegert (eds.). Samuel Bourne - Sieben Jahre Indien. Munich 2001, ill. pp. 191, 202 and 223. The Last Empire: Photography in British India,1855 - 1911. London 1976, ill. p. 94. John Falconer. Birmanie de Rangoon à Mandalay. Photographies c. 1873 publiées par Bourne & Shepherd. Paris 1999, ill. p. 40, plate 18.