SACHÉ, JOHN EDWARD and MURRAY, COLIN (1809-1898) [Native office sweeper, Calcutta] [18]89 . Albumen print on printing-out paper, 10 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches (270 x 220 mm), on original gray card mount, signed and dated in the image, Saché's name slightly trimmed. Excellent, even tones, a few areas of tape residue on the rear of the mount and one on the front, which in no way detract from the superb image. This magnificent portrait, with the noble-looking native office sweeper standing with his broom in front of a map of Calcutta, in an office of the British Raj, about to attack a pile of papers carelessly strewn on the floor, is compelling and (probably not deliberately) somewhat ironic. C
SACHÉ, JOHN EDWARD and MURRAY, COLIN (1809-1898) [Native office sweeper, Calcutta] [18]89 . Albumen print on printing-out paper, 10 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches (270 x 220 mm), on original gray card mount, signed and dated in the image, Saché's name slightly trimmed. Excellent, even tones, a few areas of tape residue on the rear of the mount and one on the front, which in no way detract from the superb image. This magnificent portrait, with the noble-looking native office sweeper standing with his broom in front of a map of Calcutta, in an office of the British Raj, about to attack a pile of papers carelessly strewn on the floor, is compelling and (probably not deliberately) somewhat ironic. C
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