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Title: Indian portrait album
Date (inclusive): 1880
Number: 2011.R.17
Physical Description:
1 album
(133 photographic prints)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
reference@getty.edu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: The album contains 122 carte-de-visite
and 11 cabinet card portraits of Indian sitters and related subjects by various
photographers including: Bourne & Shepherd; John Burke; Hurrychund Chintamon;
Photographie Parisienne, Bombay; Shapoorjee Hormusjee; Vussuntrao Hurrychund & Co.;
Rustomjee Jamsetjee; David Sykes; and P. Vuccino & Co.
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Language: Collection material is in
English.
The album may have been compiled by a member of the Jeejeebhoy family, whose portraits
predominate at the beginning of the album.
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Indian portrait album, circa 1880, The Getty Research Institute, Accession no.
2012.R.14
Acquired in 2011.
The finding aid was written by Beth Ann Guynn in 2012 and updated by her in 2020.
Scope and Content of Collection
The album presented to the Honorable M. Mowat from H. H. J. contains 122 carte-de-visite
and 11 cabinet card portraits of Indian sitters and related subjects by various
photographers. The album may have been compiled by a member of the Jeejeebhoy family, whose
portraits predominate at the beginning of the album.
The portraits are arranged in groups identified by religion such as: Parsee gentlemen;
Hindoo gentlemen; Mahomedan gentlemen; Parsee ladies; Hindoo ladies; Hindoo songstresses;
and Hindoo mythological idols. Portraits of Parsees predominate, although Hindus and Muslims
are also well-represented. Many of the sitters, who include maharajas, officials, and
members of prominent families, are identified by name. Others, including some of the family
groups, are identified only by ethno-religious denominators. Images of unnamed tradespersons
are also interspersed in the album. Some of the portraits and religious images are
photographic reproductions of paintings; there are also photographs of sculptures.
While the makers of the majority of the photographs are as yet unidentified as the card
slots obscure most of the photographers' imprints, the following photographers or studios
have been identified: Bourne & Shepherd; John Burke; Hurrychund Chintamon; Photographie
Parisienne, Bombay; Shapoorjee Hormusjee; Vussuntrao Hurrychund & Co.; Rustomjee
Jamsetjee; David Sykes; and P. Vuccino & Co.
The album is bound in brown morocco leather with a partial brass clasp remaining on the
foredge of the front cover. The intials M. M. are gilt stamped on the front cover. An
embroidered inscription inserted in the first opening reads: To / the Hon'ble / M. Mowat /
from H. H. J. / Bombay / 14th May 1880. A binder's ticket pasted on back free endpaper
reads: W. Butcher and Son / Blackheath / London S.E.
The category headings and individual sitter identifications written in brown ink on many of
the mounts have been used as page titles and titles of individual photographs respectively.
The titles for pages and photographs lacking annotations have been devised by the cataloger.
The photographs are cartes-de-visite (four per page), unless noted as being cabinet
cards.
In original order.
Chintamon, Hurrychund
Hormusjee, Shapoorjee
Jamsetjee, Rustomjee
Sykes, David Harold
P. Vuccino & Co.
Bourne &
Shepherd
Vussuntrao Hurrychund & Co.
Occupations -- India
Muslims -- Portraits
Parsees -- Portraits
Hindus -- Portraits
Hindu gods
India -- Description and travel
Studio portraits -- India -- 19th century
Albumen prints -- Greece -- 19th century
Group portraits -- India -- 19th century
Cartes-de-visite -- India -- 19th century
Cabinet cards -- India -- 19th century
Photograph albums -- India -- 19th century
Petit point -- India -- 19th century
Copy prints -- India -- 19th century