Cleveland Museum of Art

The City of Benares, on the Ganges, View of the Great Mosque of A (?) and Adjoining Landing Places

Samuel Bourne

Date: 1863–70
Medium: albumen print
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 20th-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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