1866
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Lucknow. The Great Emambara and Mosque is a 1866 by Samuel Bourne, a Impressionism work, depicting Allahabad, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a tall white mosque and a long arched building in Lucknow, India. The sky is bright, and people in loose clothes walk in front. This photo was taken in the 1860s, before the buildings were fixed up. It’s one of the few pictures we have of what the place really looked like back then. The photographer traveled all over India to take these shots. If you like old photos of faraway places, look up *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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