1866
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
The Upper Himmalayahs. View Near China Mountains. Deoders in the Foreground is a 1866 by Samuel Bourne, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see tall deodar trees framing a snowy mountain range in the distance, with a few tiny figures walking along a rocky path. This photo was taken in the 1860s, when Samuel Bourne lugged heavy glass-plate cameras up the Himalayas. The image is one of the earliest clear records of the region before roads and modern cities changed the view. For more early mountain photography, 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 20th-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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