Lot 6
India and Pakistan
Photograph album of views in the Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Bengal and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, c.1875
£882
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 September 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
all albumen prints, mounted mainly on rectos only, most with pencilled captions in a contemporary hand, and comprising:
'The drawing room at Upper [?], Howrah', 18.5 x 23.5cm;
'Group at [?], Howrah', 19 x 23.5cm (showing a British family with Indian servants);
[Group in theatrical dress], 19 x 24cm;
[River scene], 24.5 x 29.5cm, probably the Hooghly;
[Riverside factory], 23.5 x 28cm, probably the Hooghly;
'View of fort & mosque from Johari Gate, Multan', 20.5 x 27cm;
'Mosque in Fort, Multan', 21 x 27.5cm;
'Monument to Vans, Agnew & Anderson in fort, Multan, showing sepoy lines, mosque & neighbouring country';
'The great bazar - Multan', 20.5 x 28cm;
'Bakrota Hill, Dalhousie', 18 x 23.5cm;
'Post office & temporary church, Dalhousie', 18 x 24cm;
[Settlement near Dalhousie, behind palisade fence], 18 x 23.5cm;
'First view of Chumba [Chamba]', 18.5 x 23.5cm;
'Chumba Bridge', 18.5 x 23cm;
'The bazar, Chumba', 17.5 x 23.5cm;
'Ross Island - Port Blair', 19.5 x 30cm;
'Hope Town pier, Port Blair', 23.5 x 29cm (annotation to mount: 'Lord Mayo was killed at the end of the pier');
'The jail at Viper Island - Port Blair', 23.5cm x 29cm;
'St Thomas' Church - Howrah', 18 x 25cm (oval form);
[Group portrait of British officers and local notables], 20 x 27cm (one figure indicated with caption 'Mr Jenkins, killed at Cabul');
'Dharamsala, Panjab', 28.5 x 21cm (showing exterior of a church);
'Dharamsala, Panjab', 27.5 x 21.5cm (showing church interior);
2 views in Sydney, Australia, each 15 x 20.5cm; 2 views of Port Said by Hippolyte Arnoux, approx. 19 x 25cm; 11 ethnographic 'types', all 9 x 5cm, captioned 'Port Said women' and 'Port Said people'; 30 views of Oxford, Cambridge, Crediton and Cheltenham (various dimensions); numerous prints from engravings or paintings by Turner and others. Contemporary half morocco binding, front inner hinge gone, occasional light spotting (chiefly to mounts), marginal fading to a few prints.
Together with another photograph album containing: 7 large views of Malta (platinum prints, 22.2 x 29.8cm, captioned 'Malta' on mounts); 2 similar platinum prints captioned 'Redan, Crimea' and 'Bala'; 4 large albumen prints of city views, probably Melbourne (23 x 35cm); 9 other albumen prints depicting Rochester, 'Royal Engineers at work', etc.; binding defective, several leaves evidently removed
