1866
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Hyree Lake. South End of the Lake is a 1866 by Samuel Bourne, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a quiet lake nestled between steep hills, with a few small boats and a village in the distance. This photo was taken in the 1860s, long before color film. Bourne lugged heavy glass plates up the Himalayas to get the shot. The stillness makes the scene feel frozen in time—like a postcard from 150 years ago. If you like this, look up other photos in the subject: england album from the same trip.
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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