Photographs
Shimla. View North of Mount Jakko
Photograph
Details
- Author / creator
- Samuel Bourne (British, 1834–1912)
- Object type
- Photograph
- Date or period
- 1863–70
- Photo process
- Albumen
- Studio or series
- Samuel Bourne
- Place of origin
- England
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the National Heritage Memorial Fund, 2024
- Image rights
- Public domain (CC0)
About this object
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 20th-century restorations.
Materials and technique
Albumen print
