Cleveland Museum of Art
Calcutta. The Custom House Landing Place. Shipping in the River Hoogly
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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