India and Burma--Bourne, Samuel
Auction: 4 February 2009 at 11:00 GMT
Description
136 albumen prints, [57 by Bourne, 26 Bourne and Shepherd and 20 by Shepherd and Robertson signed in the negative, 33 unattributed] of Burma (Pagan, Thapenu pagoda, Rangoon), and India (Umbere, Dewan Khana, Jaipur, Bhoondi, Udaipur, Baroli, Eklungee, Jain temple at Sadree, Ahmedabad, Trichinopoly, Mundapum, Ootacamund, Darjeeling, Selim tea estate, Ninee temple, Bindrabund, Deig, Simla, Kashmir, village life in Bengal, Amritsar, elephants at work, Lucknow, Delhi, Agra, Fatepur Sikri, Benares, Sarnath, Cawnpore, Ajunta & Ellora caves, 14 of native rulers (with no attribution in the negative), tradesmen, and 20 of ethnic types by Sheppard & Robertson, captioned in ink on the mounts, from 18 x 23cm - 19 x 31cm., blue morocco albums, some spotting to mounts, fading to some photographs, rubbed, one cover detached, several joints splitting (4)
Footnote
Note: In 1862 Charles Shepherd and Arthur Robertson established a photographic studio called Shepherd & Robertson in Agra. Samuel Bourne had set up a photographic studio in 1863 in Simla with William Howard as "Howard and Bourne". In 1864 they were joined by Charles Shepherd to form "Howard Bourne & Shepherd" and in 1866, after the departure of Howard, "Bourne & Shepherd". The present photographs were originally taken in the 1860's although they were much reprinted in later decades.
Bourne spent seven very productive years in India from 1863-1871, producing approximately 2,200 fine images of the landscape and architecture of India and the Himalayas.