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Album of views of architecture and topography in Singapore, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), India, and Aden Protectorate (now in Yemen)
People:
  • Bourne & Shepherd (photographic studio)
  • W.L.H. Skeen & Co. (photographic studio)
  • Unknown (photographer)
  • Isidore Jacques Eggermont (compiler)
  • N.N. Adis (role unspecified)
  • Major General William Orfeur Cavenagh (role unspecified)
  • Dr. C.M.G. Thwaites (role unspecified)
  • J.H.E. Hart (role unspecified)
  • Khande Rao, Gaekwad of Baroda (role unspecified)
  • Sir William Gregory (role unspecified)
  • Captain Lambert Playfair (role unspecified)
  • J. Castelyns (role unspecified)
  • James G. Smither (role unspecified)
  • Muncherjee Murzban (role unspecified)
  • George Chancellor Collyer (role unspecified)
  • Victoria, Queen of Great Britain (role unspecified)
  • Mrs. Ward (role unspecified)
  • Alexander Moon (role unspecified)
  • John Turnbull Thomson (role unspecified)
  • Richard Norman Shaw (role unspecified)
  • Lieutenant-Colonel James Augustus Fuller (role unspecified)
  • F. Vine (role unspecified)
  • Rajasinghe, Sri Wickrama, King of Kandy (role unspecified)
  • Matthew Noble (role unspecified)
  • Henry Saint Clair Wilkins (role unspecified)
  • Sir Bartle Frere (role unspecified)
  • Sir Henry George Ward (role unspecified)
  • Major Skinner (role unspecified)
  • De Beer (dedicatee)
  • George Drumgoolde Coleman (role unspecified)
  • Daniel Wilson, Lord Bishop of Calcutta (role unspecified)
  • George Gardner (role unspecified)
  • E. Skinner (role unspecified)
  • John Martin Little (role unspecified)
  • James Andrew Broun Ramsay, Marquis of Dalhousie (role unspecified)
  • Tay Geok Teat (role unspecified)
  • Sir Edward Barnes (role unspecified)
  • Sir George Gilbert Scott (role unspecified)
  • Captain W.F. Dawson (role unspecified)
  • Captain Brown (role unspecified)
  • Cursetji Manekhi (role unspecified)
  • W. Paris (role unspecified)
  • P & W MacLellan (role unspecified)
  • Premchand Roychand (role unspecified)
  • Bishop of Madras (role unspecified)
  • Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg (role unspecified)
  • Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (role unspecified)
  • Lieutenant Colonel Ronald MacPherson (role unspecified)
  • James Forsyth (role unspecified)
  • John Fraser (role unspecified)
  • J. Turnbull (role unspecified)
  • Cowasjee Readymoney Jehanghier (role unspecified)
Title:

Album of views of architecture and topography in Singapore, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), India, and Aden Protectorate (now in Yemen)

Date:

before 1877

Quantity / Object type:
1 album(s)
Technique and media:

Albumen silver prints

Dimensions:

album: 40.4 x 53.4 x 6.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1985:0427:001-065

Point of View:
  • partial views
  • distant view
  • exterior views
  • interior view
Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Contemporary binding consists of dark blue, embossed, leather cover and spine with gold gilt inscriptions and gold gilding on the page edges. Pieces of paper with French inscriptions accompany many of the photographs. Endleaves are colourful marbled paper. The album is comprised of 63 photographs, 2 panoramas, and 6 blank pages. Pieces of paper with french inscriptions accompany many of the photographs.

Inscription:

imprinted and dated - in typescript and gold gilt, on the cover, u.c to l.c.: with title and / "1877" imprinted and dated - in typescript and gold gilt, on the spine, u.c.: with title; c.: "1877" stamped - blind embossed, on the front and back flyleaves and on the first and last blank pages of the album, l.l.: "BRISTOL / L.M" [with emblem; within an oval; sideways]

Location:

Adam's Peak; Sabaragamuwa; Sri Lanka;

Subject:
  • architecture
  • engineering
  • military
  • sculpture
  • topographic
Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
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