Views of India, 1860-1890

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Summary

Title:
Views of India
Dates:
1860-1890
Creators:
Harrington & Norman
Abstract:
An album of 107 photographs of religious and secular monuments and group portraits of local residents in India. Although the photographers for most of the images have not been identified, nine photographs are signed by Harrington & Norman and one photograph bears the blind stamp of G. R. Lambert & Co.
Extent:
108 photographic prints (1 album and 1 print)
Language:
Collection material is in English.
Preferred citation:

Views of India, 1860-1890, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 90.R.42

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa90r42

Background

Scope and content:

The album of 107 photographs contains images of well-known Buddhist, Hindu, and Muslim monuments, with an emphasis on the monuments of Mughal India. There are views and details of temples, stupas, mosques, tombs and mausoleums, and fortified palaces. Locations represented include Agra, Benares (Varansi), Delhi, and Lucknow. The monuments of Agra, such as the Taj Mahal, the buildings in and around the Red Fort, and Akbar's tomb in nearby Sikandra, are particularly well represented. There are also several group portraits of Indian families and portraits of Indian of various ethnic groups and professions. The British presence in India is evident in views of Victorian Bombay (Mumbai) and Calcutta (Kolkata).

Also included is one loose gelatin silver print of a Jaipur street scene.

The photographers responsible for most of the photographs in the album have not yet been identified. However, nine photographs are known to be by Harrington & Norman. These are signed in the negative: Harrington & Norman, Photo's, Calcutta; and/or bear the firm's wet stamp: Harrington & Company / Photographers / Calcutta & Darjeeling. One photograph bears the blind stamp: G. R. Lambert & Co. Singapore.

The album has blue and cream cotton brocade covers.

The titles of the individual photographs are from the English captions in the negative or the English annotations on their versos, as noted. For consistency, titles devised by the cataloger retain the nineteenth century spellings used throughout the album.

Biographical / historical:

The album was compiled by an unidentified person, mostly likely of English origin.

Acquisition information:
Acquired in 1990.
Processing information:

Processed and cataloged by Beth Ann Guynn in 1994; finding aid encoded by Holly Larson with grant funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) in 2010. Guynn updated the finding aid in 2021.

Arrangement:

Arranged in a single series: Series I. Views of India, 1860-1890.

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About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Beth Guynn
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2024-10-11 11:08:56 -0700 .

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Preferred citation:

Views of India, 1860-1890, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 90.R.42

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa90r42

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