BOURNE, Samuel (1834-1912); Raja Lala Deen DAYAL [DIYAL] (c.1844-1905)
Album of Views in India
c. 1865-1890. 4to. (13 7/8 x 12 inches). 68 mounted albumen photographs, many with negative numbers in the image, some captioned in pencil.
Full dark blue morocco, spine lettered and lined gilt, textured endpapers
A richly composed album documenting colonial India through the lenses of its two most celebrated nineteenth-century photographers, with an unusually large proportion of images devoted to Delhi and Lucknow.
This substantial album of sixty-eight mounted albumen prints brings together the work of Samuel Bourne, co-founder of Bourne & Shepherd and the pre-eminent early interpreter of India's architectural and topographical grandeur, and Raja Lala Deen Dayal, the foremost Indian photographer. Bourne's technically exacting, classically composed views predominate, ranging across major northern centers and hill stations and including a notably extensive sequence from Delhi. In that group, Bourne records the city's principal monuments and vistas with exceptional breadth: the Chandni Chowk; the Jama Masjid (including the mosque and quadrangle, and panoramic prospects taken from its heights); the Pearl Mosque within the Red Fort; Humayun's Tomb and the surrounding necropolis; the Chaunsat Khamba; the Qutb Minar with its Great Arch and Iron Pillar, as well as close studies of its sculptural carving; the Kashmir Gate; and the outworks of Tughlaqabad. In the later portion of the volume, Dayal's signed and attributed prints register the transition to an Indian-led, courtly and administrative photographic practice, blending European and subcontinental visual conventions with documentary precision. Read as a whole, the album offers both a pan-Indian survey and a concise history of nineteenth-century photographic practice on the subcontinent, from the expeditionary and archaeological eye of the 1860s to the ceremonially inflected vision of the 1880s and 1890s. List of plates: 1. 32nd Mess House, Lucknow - signed Sheperd & Robertson 2. Bourne 1040 - Lucknow - Kaiser Pasand Palace (Kaiserbagh), view from the south-west 3. Bourne 1025 - Lucknow - General view of the Residency and Bailey Guard from the fort 4. Bourne 1151 - Lucknow - Chutter Manzil (on the Gomti River) 5. Bourne 1356 - Delhi - Chandni Chowk (principal street), looking east 6. Bourne 1159 - Lucknow - Gardens 7. Bourne 1036 - Lucknow - The Kaiser Bagh 8. Bourne 1053 - Lucknow - Native quarter seen from the fort ramparts 9. Bourne 1152 - Lucknow - The Huzurt Gûnj - principal street 10. Bourne [unnumbered] - Lucknow - Bird's-eye View of the Kaiser Bagh 11. Bourne 1073 - Lucknow - Farhat Bakhsh Palace ("Furhad Bucksh") 12. Bourne 1052 - Lucknow - The Great Imambara (Bara Imambara) 13. Bourne 1047 - Lucknow - La Martinière College 14. Bourne 1026 - Lucknow - Residency and Banquetting [sic.] Hall 15. Bourne 1027 - Lucknow - Bailey Guard Gate 16. Bourne [unnumbered] 17. Bourne 1376 - Delhi - The Kutub Minar, Great Arch and Iron Pillar 18. Bourne 1371 - Delhi - The Kutub Minar, Showing the Carving on the First Gallery 19. Bourne 1369 - Delhi - The Kutub Minar and Surrounding Ruins, from the East 20. Bourne 1362 - Delhi - Humayun's Tomb 21. Bourne 1366 - Delhi - Interior of the Chaunsat Khamba 22. Bourne 1351 - Delhi - Fort Moti Masjid (Pearl Mosque) interior 23. Bourne 1352 - Delhi - Bridge across 24. Bourne 1363 - Delhi - Ruins and tombs of Old Delhi viewed from Humayun's Tomb 25. Bourne 1345 - Delhi - View of the City from the Jumma Masjid 26. Bourne 1347 - Delhi - The Palace, from the Jumma Musjid 27. Bourne 1382 - Delhi - Ruins of the fort of Toglukabad 28. Bourne 1353 - Delhi - The jumma musjid from the north east 29. Bourne 1355 - Delhi - The Jumma Musjid, the Mosque and Quadrangle 30. Bourne 1357 - Delhi - The Kashmir Gate 31. Bourne 1622 - Naini Tal 32. Bourne 1617 - Naini Tal, Uttarakhand 33. Bourne 781 - Kashmir - Ruins of Martund, from the North-East 34. [Bourne] 809 Kashmir - Group of Kashmir females 35. [Bourne] 817 Kashmir - Tukht-i-Soliman 36. Bourne 784 - Kashmir - Bij Bihara, on the Jhelum 37. Bourne 1206 - Cawnpore - Memorial Well, marble statue by Marochetti 38. Bourne 1203 - Cawnpore - Memorial Well with Cawnpore Church beyond 39. Bourne 1208 - Cawnpore - Suttee Chowra Ghat, scene of the 1857 massacre 40. Bourne 1703 41. Unsigned 42. Unsigned 43. Unsigned 44. Unsigned 45. Unsigned 46. Unsigned 47. Unsigned 48. Unsigned 49. Signed - unattributed 50. Bourne 1629 - Hill Station of Nynee Tal from the Smugglers Rock 51. Unsigned 52. Unsigned 53. D. Diyal 54. [D. Diyal, attributed] 1771 55. Unsigned 56. Unsigned 57. [D. Diyal, attributed] 1772 58. D. Diyal 1761 59. Unsigned 60. Unsigned 61. Unsigned 62. Unsigned 63. Unsigned 64. Unsigned 65. Unsigned 66. Unsigned 67. Unsigned 68. Unsigned.
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Price: $13,500.00