Photographs from India and Ceylon by Charles Scowen
MS. 23051 photogr. 81
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Photographs from India and Ceylon by Charles Scowen
Shelfmark
MS. 23051 photogr. 81
Summary
Forty one albumen photographs from a disassembled album. Views from around India and of tea plantations in Sri Lanka. With a handwritten list of prints. The original album had a written dedication: 'H.S.S. and W.R.C Feby 1875'. It originally included 67 prints, with photographs by Samuel Bourne, Charles Shepherd, Shepherd & Robertson, and John Edward Saché. These have been separated and are now likely among the Bourne and Saché prints in the Wilson Collection.
Associated place
Sri Lanka
Date
1875
Language
English
Physical facet
Albumen paper prints
Physical extent
42 items
Custodial history
Purchased at Christie's UK, 29/10/1981, lot 235.
Subject
India
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Collection contents
The Michael and Jane Wilson Collection of Nineteenth Century Photographs
Photographically-illustrated books and albums
Photographs from India and Ceylon by Charles Scowen
