Item #242355 Mundapum, with facade of carved horses. Samuel Bourne.

Mundapum, with facade of carved horses.

[India: ca. 1865].

Price: $1,250.00


About the item

Bourne cat. #2065. Vintage albumen print, inscribed in negative, lower left ("Bourne 2065"), docketed on verso. 9 1/4 x 11 1/4 in. Matted; fine.

Item #242355

British-born Samuel Bourne (1834-1912) photographed the landscape and architecture of India and the Himalayan region from 1863-1870. "[R]ecognized as an important landscape photographer, Bourne entered a partnership with Charles Shepherd" and "became a leading supplier of Indian views" (Pare, PHOTOGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE, p. 251).