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Reverend Holcomb's Bungalow (verso, top)

c. 1882–87
(Indian, 1844–1905)
Culture
India
Measurements
Image: 19.8 x 27.5 cm (7 13/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
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Raja Deen Dayal is regarded now, and was considered during his lifetime, to be India’s most important 19th-century photographer.

Description

These photographs are part of an album, now disassembled, of around 105 photographs taken in India between 1885 and summer 1887 that provide glimpses into the lives of the British colonial elite and royal and upper-class Indians. The museum holds another group of 37 pictures from this album (2016.266), which was probably commissioned by a British civil servant visiting or working in India around 1888 as a personal souvenir of his experiences there.
A sepia-toned albumen print depicts a long white bungalow with a dark tiled roof and rounded wing. In the grassy foreground, figures wearing white tunics and turbans stand near the building. To our left, a figure in a dark suit sits in a chair. On our right, a horse-drawn carriage waits. A sparse tree leans from the far right over the scene, which is set on aged, beige-brown paper.

Reverend Holcomb's Bungalow (verso, top)

c. 1882–87

Raja Deen Dayal

(Indian, 1844–1905)
India

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