Shimla. From Mount Jakko, Looking West

Series Title: Photographs of Northern India

1863–70

Samuel Bourne

(British, 1834–1912)

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Culture

England

Medium

albumen print

Credit Line

Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2024.5.1

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Location

Not on view

Did You Know?

Samuel Bourne, the author of most the images in this album, was a banker in England before he moved to India to become a professional photographer.

Description

The 50 images in this album, all taken in the 1860s, move from the hill towns of the Himalayas down to cities including Lahore (now in Pakistan), Delhi, Lucknow, Agra, Benares (now Varansi), and Calcutta (now Kolkata). Architectural studies of major monuments offer valuable historical records of what sites such as the Taj Mahal and the imperial mosque of the Mughal emperors in Delhi looked like before twentieth-century restorations.