1866
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Murree. A Hill Station in the Himmalayahs, View Through the Forest is a 1866 by Samuel Bourne, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a quiet path cutting through thick Himalayan forest, sunlight dappling the leaves. Bourne took this photo in the 1860s while traveling British India with a heavy wooden camera and glass plates. He lugged the gear up steep trails to get these views—no small feat. The image is one of the earliest photographs of the region, showing places before modern roads and restorations. For more early travel photos, look up the subject england.
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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