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Commissioner's house, Jhansi (recto); Reverend Holcomb's Bungalow (verso, top); Untitled (verso, bottom)

c. 1882–87

Raja Deen Dayal

(Indian, 1844–1905)
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Culture
India
Medium
albumen print
Measurements
Image: 19.8 x 27.5 cm (7 13/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
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John L. Severance Fund 2023.121.10
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Raja Deen Dayal is regarded now, and was considered during his lifetime, to be India’s most important 19th-century photographer.

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These photographs are part of an album, now disassembled, of around 105 photographs taken in India between 1885 and summer 1887 that provide glimpses into the lives of the British colonial elite and royal and upper-class Indians. The museum holds another group of 37 pictures from this album (2016.266), which was probably commissioned by a British civil servant visiting or working in India around 1888 as a personal souvenir of his experiences there.
An albumen print depicts three buildings in a vertically stacked composition. The top scene features a one-story house with a broad hipped roof and wide veranda. In the middle, figures and a horse-drawn carriage gather before a building with a rounded side. The bottom scene depicts a flat-roofed structure atop a stone terrace. Figures, animals, and a dog populate the landscape, all rendered in muted brown tones.

Commissioner's house, Jhansi (recto); Reverend Holcomb's Bungalow (verso, top); Untitled (verso, bottom)

c. 1882–87

Raja Deen Dayal

(Indian, 1844–1905)
India

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