INDIA - CHINA - HONG-KONG Album featuring portraits and land - Lot 122

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INDIA - CHINA - HONG-KONG Album featuring portraits and land - Lot 122
INDIA - CHINA - HONG-KONG Album featuring portraits and landscapes mainly in India and China, then Ceylon, some views of Indochina, Cambodia and Hong Kong, ca.1870-1900, by Gobind Ram & Oodey Ram - Charles Scowen (1852-1948) - The Colombo Apothecaries - A Chan (Ya Zhen) Studios - Sze-Yuen Ming (Act. 1892-Ca.1920) - William Saunders (1832-1892) - Lai Afong (1839-1890). India: Maharajah Sawai Madho Singh II and his Prime Minister Kanti Cahdner Mukherjee, fakirs, jugglers, Muslim dancer, Shimla, crowds at Jeypore (Palace of the Winds), Maharajah's elephants, Parsi women of the Wadia family, Colombo, Banyan, lake with laundresses, Kandy: Buddha's tooth, botanical garden, giant bamboos; Ceylon: plantations, Calcutta bath, large banyan tree, water carrier, Ganges in Benares, cremation of the dead, temples, Imambara Bara mosque in Lucknow, Raja and Choy Lam gardens, Agra: fort, Taj Mahal, women's bath, mausoleums of Itmad-ud-Dowlah and Akbar, elephant tower, Delhi fort, Lahore: mosque and golden temple, Bayadère; Ceylon: Kandyan woman, Mount Abu temple, Elephanta; Indochina: Saigon; Cambodia, Angkor, child in the ruins, Annamite theater (Cadouille scene); Hong Kong; China: Canton: Heavenly Peace Street, Cho Shing temple, canal, men at the Temple of Longevity, of the 500 genies, pirate executions in Kowloon in 1891, junks, opium smokers, wedding in Shanghai, photomontage of Chinese women, Longhua pagoda, workers in a factory, coolies carrying barrels. Photographs. Album of approximately 125 albumin or citrate prints, some signed in the negative or captioned below the images. Spine missing. Images: approx. 21 x 29 cm; album: 36.4 x 28.3 cm The first part of the album is devoted to India, with views by Gobind and Oodey Ram. The latter set up their photographic studio in Jaipur in the late 1880s. Their views illustrate not only daily life, but also the upper castes, with spectacular portraits included in the album. Some of their framings are close to those of Deen Dayal or Bourne, illustrating the sharing and influence of an aesthetic between Indian and foreign photographers. These are followed by views of Canton by A Chan, the famous execution of the pirates by Saunders and opium smokers by Afong. Bibliography: -William Eleroy Curtis, "Modern India", Fleming H. Revell Company, 1905, 513p. (several photographs reproduced). -Joachim K. Bautze, "Uncredited Photographs by Gobindram & Oodeyram", Artibus Asiae 63, n°2, 2003, pp.223-246.
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