1866
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
The Upper Himmalayahs. View in the Manga Valley is a 1866 by Samuel Bourne, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see sharp peaks, a winding river, and tiny tents in a high mountain valley. Bourne lugged his heavy camera up these trails in the 1860s. The photo-like detail wasn’t painted—it’s an early photograph, one of the first to show the Himalayas this clearly. For more quiet records of faraway places, look at the work of 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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