MAHARAJA - CABINET CARDS

a) Johnston and Hoffman
Maharaja of Jodhpur, Jaswant Singh II
Circa 1880s
Albumen print mounted on cabinet card
6.5 x 4.25 in (16.5 x 10.7 cm)

b) Bourne and Shepherd
Raja of Moodhole State (in Maharashtra)
Circa 1887
Albumen print mounted on cabinet card
6.5 x 4.25 in (16.5 x 10.7 cm)

Photograph of Meherban Shrimant Vyankatrao II, the Chief of Mudhol, standing, in a full length portrait. He faces the viewer and rests his right arm against the back of a velvet upholstered chair featuring tassels. He wears a Sherwani with an embroidered hem and a form of turban. In the background stands a table with various books placed on it.

c) Bourne and Shepherd
The Young Chief of Meeraj State (in Maharashtra)
Circa 1887
Albumen print mounted on cabinet card
6.5 x 4.25 in (16.5 x 10.7 cm)

Photograph of a full length seated portrait photograph of the young Chief of Meeraj, possibly aged around ten years of age. The Young Chief is sitting on a chair with his feet placed upon a footstool, he has his left elbow placed on a table which has an open book and a bronze statuette of a stag placed upon it. The Chief is wearing a velvet frock, turban and pearl necklaces around his neck.

d) Bourne and Shepherd
Unidentified Maharaja with Hookah
Circa 1880s
Albumen print mounted on cabinet card
6.5 x 4.25 in (16.5 x 10.7 cm)

Cartes de Visite were described in the Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Photography published in 2008 as "Small, ephemeral commodities which were widely available, easy to hold, easy to pass around, easy to look over by the dozen within the drawing room, cartes produced little distinction in themselves. They were literally 'touchy-feely' artefacts; not to be looked at with deferential awe or revered from a distance but catalogued and collected, gossiped and commented upon."

(Set of four)

These works will be shipped unframed

NON-EXPORTABLE