Cleveland Museum of Art
Photographs of Northern India
Samuel Bourne
- Date
- 1863–70
- Medium
- Album of 50 albumen prints
- Culture
- England
- Department
- Photography
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The 50 images in this album, all taken in the 1860s, move from the hill towns of the Himalayas down to cities including Lahore (now in Pakistan), Delhi, Lucknow, Agra, Benares (now Varansi), and Calcutta (now Kolkata). Architectural studies of major monuments offer valuable historical records of what sites such as the Taj Mahal and the imperial mosque of the Mughal emperors in Delhi looked like before twentieth-century restorations. Samuel Bourne, the author of most the images in this album, was a banker in England before he moved to India to become a professional photographer.
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