1866
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Fort of Futheypoor Sikre near Agra. The Residence of the Emperor Akbar is a 1866 by Samuel Bourne, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a quiet fort by a river, its stone walls glowing in soft sunlight. A few people stand near the gate, small against the massive architecture. This photo was taken in the 1860s, before modern restorations. It shows how the fort looked when the British ruled India—real, not polished. Bourne traveled thousands of miles to take pictures like this, documenting places most Europeans never saw. If you like this, look up other photos in the subject: england collection—many show India’s landmarks just as they were.
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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