A Tour in India

Album titled A Tour in India with a mix of albumen and silver gelatin prints mounted on card and captioned in pen in English on mounts in the same unknown hand, a total of 70 photographs with one per page on 32 pages and mounted back-to-back, 8 oblong and 62 horizontal, size of each photograph varying between 155 x 209 mm to 295 x 210 mm

Album size: 365 x 295 mm. Mount Size: 350 x 265 mm. Contemporary leather bound in brown leather with gold tooling to the covers including the title “A TOUR IN INDIA”. All edges gilt; Circa 1880s

Extensive collection of fine 19th-century photographs of India, including views of Benaras (1), Lucknow (17), Cawnpore (2), Agra (5), Fatehpur Sikri (9), Delhi (20), Jeypore (12), Ajmere (2), Jodhpur (1) and Ahmedabad (1)

Photographs appear in the following sequence: -

1. Ghat View at Benaras
2. La Martinere, Lucknow
3. Delkoosha Palace, Lucknow
4. Wingfield Park, Lucknow
5. Palace of Lights, Lucknow
6. Residency where Women and Children were confined
7. Residency, Dr Farris House
8. Taj of Hoosinabad, Lucknow
9. Residency, Lucknow
10. Residency Compound, Lucknow
11. Residency, Baby Gate, Lucknow
12. Palace of Lights, Lucknow
13. Secundra Bagh Gate, Lucknow (olong)
14. Gate to Palace of Lights, Lucknow
15. General View of Hoosinabad, Lucknow
16. Imambara, Lucknow
17. Imambara, Lucknow
18. Mosque, Lucknow
19. Massacre Ghat, Cawnpore
20. Spot on which the house of Massacre stood, Cawnpore, 1857
21. The Taj, Agra
22. Secundra, Agra
23. The Taj Agra from the fort
24. Sheish Mahal, Agra Fort
25. A View in the Fort Area, Agra (oblong)
26. Mirriam's Kothi, Fatehpur Sikri
27. Fatehpur Sikri, Agra
28. Fatehpur Sikri, Agra
29. Fatehpur Sikri, Agra
30. Fatehpur Sikri, Agra
31. Fatehpur Sikri, Agra
32. Fatehpur Sikri, Agra
33. Fatehpur Sikri, Agra (oblong)
34. Fatehpur Sikri, Agra
35. View of the City and Ridge, Delhi
36. Mutiny Monument, Delhi (oblong)
37. Jama Masjid, Mosque of Shahjahan, Delhi
38. Delhi Gate Fort within
39. Lahore Gate, where Officers on giard were massacred, 1857
40. Dewan-i-Am Fort
41. Dewan-i-Khas. Hall of Special and (sic) (oblong)
42. Lahore Gate, Fort
43. Bath. Fort. Delhi
44. Samman Burj, Seats of Justice, Fort Delhi
45. Samman Burj, Inner Chamber
46. Jamma Masjid, Delhi
47. Jamma Masjid, Delhi (Another View (sic)
48. Humayun's Tomb. Delhi. Father of Akbar
49. Safdar Jangs Mansoleum
50. Kutub, Old Delhi (oblong)
51. Kutub (Carvings and Inscriptions)
52. Kutub (Entrance) (oblong)
53. Hindoo Colomade (Old Delhi)
54. Jama Temple (oblong)
55. Street in Jeypore and Bazaar
56. Albert Hall and Museum, Jeypore
57. Palace of the Winds, Jeypore
58. School of Arts, Jeypore
59. Entrance to Jeypore City
60. Sun Worship Procession, Jeypore
61. Panorama View of the Amber Palace, Jeypore
62. Another View of the Amber Palace, Jeypore
63. Amber View of deserted town
64. Sish Mahal, Amber
65. Sish Mahal, Amber (Another View)
66. Palace of Amber, Jeypore
67. View of City, Ajmere
68. Jodhpore Residence, Ajmere
69. Courts of Justice, Jodhpore
70. The Bhada, Ahmedabad, 1911

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