1866
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Delhi. View of North Side of the Jamma Musjid in Principal Mabonedau Place of Worship is a 1866 by Samuel Bourne, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a black-and-white photograph of Delhi’s Jama Masjid mosque, its domes and minarets rising against a bright sky. This image is one of the earliest photos of the site, taken before modern restorations. The details—cracks in the stone, the way light falls on the arches—show what the mosque really looked like in the 1860s. If you like this, look up more work by Samuel Bourne (British, 1834–1912).
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 twentieth-century restorations.
Samuel Bourne, the author of most the images in this album, was a banker in England before he moved to India to become a professional photographer.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Samuel Bourne was a British photographer known for his prolific seven years' work in India, from 1863 to 1870.
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