Item #242359 Sir Robert Montgomery's Camel Carriage in Government House, Lahore [pencil caption]. Samuel Bourne, Charles SHEPHERD.

Sir Robert Montgomery's Camel Carriage in Government House, Lahore [pencil caption].

[Lahore: ca. 1865].

Price: $1,250.00


About the item

Bourne cat. # 2126. Vintage albumen print, docketed on verso. 8 3/4 x 11 1/4 in. Matted, some wrinkling and fading to margins, else near fine.

Item #242359

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).