The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 14, 2025

Middle Class Students and Staff, Bishop Cotton School, Shimla (verso)

c. 1882–87

Raja Deen Dayal

(Indian, 1844–1905)
India
albumen print
Image: 19.4 x 27 cm (7 5/8 x 10 5/8 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2023.121.23.1
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

Raja Deen Dayal is regarded now, and was considered during his lifetime, to be India’s most important 19th-century photographer.

Description

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.
  • 1960s–2015
    Private Collection, England
    2015–23
    (Prahlad Bubbar, Ltd., London, England), sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    September 11, 2023–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2023.121.23.1