1866
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Futheypoor Sikre Guard Gate of the Fort is a 1866 by Samuel Bourne, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a tall stone gate with pointed arches, carved flowers, and two small guard towers on either side. The gate stands in bright sunlight, casting sharp shadows on the ground. This photo was taken in the 1860s in India, not England—Bourne traveled there with a heavy camera and glass plates. The gate is part of an old fort, and the photo shows it before later repairs changed its look. For more of these early travel photos, look up the subject england—but keep scrolling to find Bourne’s India work instead.
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.
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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