Untitled [Album of Assorted Photographs of Various Views of India and Abroad]
Untitled Album, Circa 1870s, with fifty three albumen prints mounted on card and captioned in pencil on 26 mounts in the same unknown hand, including photographs of Calcutta (2), Bareli (1), Nainital (2), Ranikhet (2), Taj Mahal, Agra (1), Lucknow (1), Delhi (1), Varanasi (1), Jabalpur (1), Kochi (1), Kunchenjunga (1), Malta (3), Suez Canal (1), Egypt (1), Pachmarhi (13), the Himalayas (5), Darjeeling (11), Burma (2), Untitled (5)
One photograph per page on 26 pages and mounted back-to-back and one photograph at the end, each captioned in pencil. Varying size photographs. Album size: 28 x 38 x 3.5 cm. Half leather bound with leather corners and 4 raised gilt bands at the spine
Photographs appear in the following sequence and have the titled inscribed on board as mentioned below:
"Calcutta" on the board and titled “BOTANICAL GARDENS. CALCUTTA” and numbered “2571.845” (lower right) in the negative / 21.3 x 28 cm
"Bareli" / 19.7 x 26.5 cm
"Nainee tal" / 91" / 21 x 27.5 cm
"Ranikhet" / 91" / 21.6 x 27.4 cm
"Mess Ranikhet" / 21.5 x 27.2 cm
"Naini Tal" / 21.5 x 27.4 cm
"The taj. agra" / 21 x 27 cm
Untitled / 21.2 x 27.3 cm
"Residency Lucknow" / 21.2 x 27.3 cm
"Delhi Gate" / 21.4 x 27.3 cm
"Burning Ghat" / 20.6 x 27.5 cm
"Marble Rocks Jabalpur 89" / 21 x 27.5 cm
"Malabar Coast / 89" / 21 x 27.5 cm
"Himalayas" and inscribed "Kinchinjunga from Birch Hill. Darjeeling. 1915" in the negative / 22.9 x 28.7 cm
"Ranikhet" / 18.3 x 27 cm
"Malta" at lower bottom on the board and inscribed "Strada Sta.Lucia Malta" (lower left) and "H. Aquis Photo" (lower right) in the negative / 26 x 19.8 cm
"Malta" at lower bottom on the board and inscribed "Saluting Battery & Custom House Malta" (lower left) and "H. Acuis Photo" (lower right) in the negative / 18.9 x 26.5 cm
"H.M Troopship Jumna in Canal" on the board and inscribed "Zangaki" (lower left) and "N.18 Joumna Passent Le Canal" (lower right) in the negative
"Malta" on the board lower bottom and inscribed "Entrance of the Great Harbour, Malta" (lower left) and "H. Acuis Photo" (lower right) in the negative / 19.5 x 25.9 cm
"Egypt" and inscribed "H. Acuis Photo" (lower left) and "Fontaine de Moïse" (lower right) in the negative / 20.6 x 27.5 cm
"Pachmari" and inscribed "H.Hands" (lower left) and ""Handiko", Pachmarhi" (lower right) in the negative / 20.5 x 28.5 cm
"Pachmari" / 20.9 x 27.5 cm
"Pachmari" / 27 x 21.5 cm
"Pachmari" / 21.5 x 28 cm
"Pachmari" / 21.5 x 27.5 cm
"Pachmari" / 21.5 x 28 cm
"Pachmari" / 21 x 27.5 cm
"Pachmari" and inscribed "H.Hands" (lower left) in the negative / 21.2 x 27.2 cm
"Pachmari" and inscribed "H.Hands" (lower right) in the negative / 20 x 26.8 cm
"Pachmari" / 21.8 x 28 cm
"Pachmari" and inscribed "H.Hands" (lower left) and "Rock Hotel - Pachnarhi" (centre) in the negative / 21.5 x 27.8 cm
Untitled / 18 x 28.8 cm
Untitled / 17.9 x 27.5 cm
"Himalayas" / 21.3 x 27.5 cm
"Darjeeling Railway" / 27.8 x 20.5 cm
"Darjeeling Railway" / 21.5 x 28.5 cm
"Darjeeling" / 29.2 x 22.2 cm
"Sketch of 7th Mountain Battery by Major Hobday R.A / Darjeeling" / 21.2 x 26.5 cm
"Darjeeling" / 21.8 x 28.5 cm
"Darjeeling" / 22.8 x 28.5 cm
"Darjeeling" / 22.8 x 28.5 cm
"Darjeeling" / 29 x 22.8 cm
"Darjeeling" / 22.8 x 23 cm
Untitled / 20.5 x 28.5 cm
"Darjeeling" / 23 x 28.5 cm
""Talap La" pass on Himalayas into Thibet 18,000 feet" / 29.2 x 23.2 cm
"Top of Himalayas" / 23.3 x 30 cm
"Moulmein Burma" / 19.5 x 24.2 cm
"Rangoon" / 24 x 19.3 cm
"Pagoda Rangoon" / 23.5 x 19.8 cm
"Fort William Calcutta" / 19.2 x 24 cm
"Rangoon" / 19.5 x 24 cm
"Hot Mine" / 23 x 29.5 cm
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