India | Collection of forty-seven photographs, circa. 1880s

India

Collection of forty-seven photographs, circa. 1880s

47 albumen prints (43 approx. 195 x 270mm., 4: 100 x 140mm., or the reverse), mounted recto only on 47 card mounts (328 x 460mm.), all captioned by hand in German in ink on the reverse, housed in a contemporary fitted buckram box with red label on the spine titled 'Indien: Delhi [etc.]', some fading, spotting and stains to mounts and occasionally to images, box stained and slightly worn

A good collection of portraits and views of Delhi, Lahore and Agra.

PROVENANCE:

One of a series of 13 portfolios of travel photographs assembled by a collector/traveller in the 1890s, see also lots 1, 4, 5, 12, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25, 52 and 159.