14 albumin prints of multi-image caricatures titled BOMBAY GYMKHANA from 1890s

14 large albumin prints of multi-image caricatures titled BOMBAY GYMKHANA
Circa 1890s
These photographs are pasted on 7 sheets back to back, and covering the events held between 1880 and 1891, show the humorous side of British pastimes such as polo, cricket, fox-hunting, pigsticking, racing, golf, etc. in Bombay, Poona, and Nasik.
9.25 x 7.25 in (23.5 x 18.4 cm) (each)

The highlighted text in these reads:

Bombay Gymkhana Book presented by C L Young
Poona Cricket - Parsees Mofussil Match
March Memoranda 1884 - The Sky Races
The Opening Meet 1881 [shows fox hunting]
Gowff [i.e. Golf] at Nasik
Calcutta v Bombay Oct 1884 [on cricket and other games]
This Is the Game of Polo
The First Bheema Cup, Poona 1881
Pigsticking 1884
Scratch Pair Oar Races
Cricket 1885 Matches Week
1887 - Our Guiding Rays / O...ur Mackay Ding Reays [a pun on the name of Donald Mackay, 11thLord Reay, Governor of Bombay 1885-90 after whom the Reay Road railway station in Mumbai is named]
Temple [titled in pencil; a portrait of Sir Richard Temple [1826-1902] who was Governor of Bombay 1877-1880]
Marker at Gymkhana - Talkagy [a portrait of the recordkeeper Talkaji, titled in pencil]

Though not mentioned here, the caricatures were drawn by F C Macrae, who also illustrated numerous other British India-related books, notably 'Behind the Bungalow" by EHA and "Hotch-Potch and Kedgeree" by Sir Allan Arthur.


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This lot will be shipped unframed and will be sold in "as is" condition. For further details, please refer to the images of individual lots as reference for the condition of each photograph.