CEYLON - CHARLES T. SCOWEN 1852-1948 - Lot 12

CEYLON - CHARLES T. SCOWEN 1852-1948 Souvenirs from a trip to Ceylon, ca. 1890. Photographs. 29 albumin prints mounted on cardboard, 22 of which signed by Scowen in the negative, some captioned in the negative. In original box with gilt-lettered title "Reise-Erinnerungen - Ceylon". Colombo, transport, Grand Oriental Hotel, family in front of their fruit store, Peradeniya Garden, Singhalese fishing boat, Remarkable trees of the Botanical Garden, Giant Bamboo, Banyan, Coconut tree, Caryota Urens, Alsophila crinita, Mimosa, Eriodendron Anfractuosum, white cotton tree, Corypha Umbraculifera, Theobroma Cacao, Kicelia Pinnata, Ravenala Madagascariensis traveler's tree, Coffea Arabica, Images: 22 x 27.5 cm; mounts: 32.5 x 42.5 cm