Lambert & Co. Album of 56 photographs of Singapore and region. [late nineteenth-century]

LAMBERT & CO., GUSTAVE RICHARD, AND OTHERS

Album of fifty six photographs of Singapore and region. [1880s]

Oblong folio (287 x 337mm.), 56 albumen prints (from 130 x 100mm. to 217 x 276mm., or the reverse), including 2 duplicates, mounted recto and verso on thick card, most photographs blindstamped 'G.R. Lambert & Co', some numbered and titled in the negative, contemporary black diced russia gilt, minor spotting or fading, binding slightly worn

Gustave Richard Lambert arrived in Singapore in 1875, where he sat up a studio on Orchard Road. He was a prolific photographer of Singapore, Borneo, Malaya, Siam and China.