VISIT OF THEIR EXCELLENCIES LORD AND LADY LANSDOWNE TO HYDERABAD (DECCAN)
Visit of their Excellencies Lord and Lady Lansdowne to Hyderabad (Deccan), 1892, Lala Deen Dayal, State Photographer
Lala Deen Dayal
1892
Presentation album, 33 albumen prints stuck down on a thick mount board, with each photograph numbered and with a printed caption at the bottom of the photograph.
Green leather, gilt, title and photographer's credit in gilt on front cover, oblong album: 34 x 48 cm.
Lala Deen Dayal (b. 1844) also known as Raja Deen Dayal was an Indian British photographer. His career began in the mid-1870s as a commissioned photographer and eventually, he set up studios in Indore, Mumbai and Hyderabad. He became the court photographer to the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad, Mahbub Ali Khan Asif Jah VI, who awarded him the title Musawwir Jung Raja Bahadur, and he was appointed as the photographer to the Viceroy of India in 1885. He received the Royal Warrent from Queen Victoria in 1897.
NON-EXPORTABLE
13.5 x 19 in | 34 x 48 cm
43
Wiele and klein
DELHI DURBAR,1903, DELHI [SET OF 8]
Platinum prints on paper
8.9 x 11.5 in (22.6 x 29.2 cm)
Rs 75000.00 - 100000.00
$ 1048.95 - 1398.60
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