IndiaCollection of seventy-three photographs, circa. 1880s 73 albumen prints (53 approx. 195 x 270mm., 20: 100 x 140mm., or the reverse), mounted recto only on 68 card mounts (328 x 460mm.), all captioned by hand in German in ink on the reverse, housed in a contemporary fitted buckram box with red label on the spine titled 'Indien: Gwalior, Lucknow, Benares, Calcutta [etc.]', some fading, spotting, and stains to mounts and occasionally to images, box stained and slightly worn A good collection of portraits and views of Delhi, Calcutta, Agra, Jeypore, Ahmedabad, Mount Abu, Gwalior, Lucknow, and Benares. PROVENANCE:One of a series of 13 portfolios of travel photographs assembled by a collector/traveller in the 1890s, see also lots 1, 4, 5, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25, 52 and 159.
IndiaCollection of seventy-three photographs, circa. 1880s 73 albumen prints (53 approx. 195 x 270mm., 20: 100 x 140mm., or the reverse), mounted recto only on 68 card mounts (328 x 460mm.), all captioned by hand in German in ink on the reverse, housed in a contemporary fitted buckram box with red label on the spine titled 'Indien: Gwalior, Lucknow, Benares, Calcutta [etc.]', some fading, spotting, and stains to mounts and occasionally to images, box stained and slightly worn A good collection of portraits and views of Delhi, Calcutta, Agra, Jeypore, Ahmedabad, Mount Abu, Gwalior, Lucknow, and Benares. PROVENANCE:One of a series of 13 portfolios of travel photographs assembled by a collector/traveller in the 1890s, see also lots 1, 4, 5, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25, 52 and 159.
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