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Series Title: Photographs of Northern India

The Upper Himmalayahs. View in the Manga Valley

1863–70

Samuel Bourne

(British, 1834–1912)
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Culture
England
Medium
albumen print
Credit Line
Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2024.5.17
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Samuel Bourne, the author of most the images in this album, was a banker in England before he moved to India to become a professional photographer.

Description

The 50 images in this album, all taken in the 1860s, move from the hill towns of the Himalayas down to cities including Lahore (now in Pakistan), Delhi, Lucknow, Agra, Benares (now Varansi), and Calcutta (now Kolkata). Architectural studies of major monuments offer valuable historical records of what sites such as the Taj Mahal and the imperial mosque of the Mughal emperors in Delhi looked like before twentieth-century restorations.
A vertically oriented albumen print features a sepia-toned landscape with tall, dark coniferous trees framing a rocky path. The dense trees rise toward massive rock faces. High, jagged mountain peaks covered in bright, sunlit tones fill the background, creating strong contrast with the shadowed forest. At the bottom center is an inscription, "Bourne 261" (see "Inscriptions"). The composition emphasizes verticality, leading from the dark foreground to the distant summits.

The Upper Himmalayahs. View in the Manga Valley

1863–70

Samuel Bourne

(British, 1834–1912)
England

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