1866
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
The City of Lahore. Another View Taken from Huzeer Khan's House is a 1866 by Samuel Bourne, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a quiet rooftop view of Lahore: red brick walls, white domes, and a few people in loose cotton clothes going about their day. This photo was taken in the 1860s by a British photographer who lugged heavy glass plates across India. The buildings look almost untouched—no modern repairs, just the way they stood when Mughal emperors ruled. It’s like a time machine to a city most Europeans had never seen. If you like old photos that freeze a moment, look up more work by 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.
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Samuel Bourne was a British photographer known for his prolific seven years' work in India, from 1863 to 1870.
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