BOURNE, Samuel (1834-1912) and Charles SHEPHERD (fl. 1858-1878), photographers. The Coronation Durbar Delhi. Calcutta, Simla and Bombay: Eyre and Spottiswoode for Bourne and Shepherd, 1903.
BOURNE, Samuel (1834-1912) and Charles SHEPHERD (fl. 1858-1878), photographers. The Coronation Durbar Delhi. Calcutta, Simla and Bombay: Eyre and Spottiswoode for Bourne and Shepherd, 1903.
The 1903 Durbar celebrating the coronation of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra as Emperor and Empress of India. The Coronation Durbar of 1903 was perhaps the single most spectacular display of the British India at its height. Organised in minute detail by the Viceroy, George, Lord Curzon, and featuring the massed ranks of the Indian princes in all their splendour, the Durbar is thought to have featured the greatest collection of jewels ever to have been brought together in the same place. The album includes portraits of Curzon himself, Lady Curzon, the Duke and Duchess of Connaught (who attended as representatives of Edward VII, the Duke's brother), H.H. the Nizam of Hyderabad, the Maharajas of Mysore, Alwar, Jhalawar, Patiala, Sikhim, Cooch Behar, Kapurthala, Benares, and Kashmir, the Crown Prince of Nabha, and the Nawabs of Rampur and Bahawalpur. More unusual subjects include the Shan Chiefs and Princesses, a Giant of Cashmere, 'Burmese warriors at the Review of Native Chiefs' Retinues' and the Devil Dancers from Ladakh. Among the views are the City of Tents, the state Durbar elephant decorated with jewels and cloths of gold and silver, an elephant in battle armour, curious conveyances, the state entry into Delhi and scenes of the Durbar itself in Coronation Park.
Folio (455 x 343mm). Printed in imperial purple throughout, title and text leaves within gold chromolithographic border, 133 albumen or platinum prints mounted onto 101 green leaves, each preceded by a leaf of explanatory text. Publisher's red morocco with imperial insignia and lettering in gilt, uncut (rebacked and restored with old spine relaid, stain to lower board, new endpapers).
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BOURNE, Samuel (1834-1912) and Charles SHEPHERD (fl. 1858-1878), photographers. The Coronation Durbar Delhi. Calcutta, Simla and Bombay: Eyre and Spottiswoode for Bourne and Shepherd, 1903.
The 1903 Durbar celebrating the coronation of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra as Emperor and Empress of India. The Coronation Durbar of 1903 was perhaps the single most spectacular display of the British India at its height. Organised in minute detail by the Viceroy, George, Lord Curzon, and featuring the massed ranks of the Indian princes in all their splendour, the Durbar is thought to have featured the greatest collection of jewels ever to have been brought together in the same place. The album includes portraits of Curzon himself, Lady Curzon, the Duke and Duchess of Connaught (who attended as representatives of Edward VII, the Duke's brother), H.H. the Nizam of Hyderabad, the Maharajas of Mysore, Alwar, Jhalawar, Patiala, Sikhim, Cooch Behar, Kapurthala, Benares, and Kashmir, the Crown Prince of Nabha, and the Nawabs of Rampur and Bahawalpur. More unusual subjects include the Shan Chiefs and Princesses, a Giant of Cashmere, 'Burmese warriors at the Review of Native Chiefs' Retinues' and the Devil Dancers from Ladakh. Among the views are the City of Tents, the state Durbar elephant decorated with jewels and cloths of gold and silver, an elephant in battle armour, curious conveyances, the state entry into Delhi and scenes of the Durbar itself in Coronation Park.
Folio (455 x 343mm). Printed in imperial purple throughout, title and text leaves within gold chromolithographic border, 133 albumen or platinum prints mounted onto 101 green leaves, each preceded by a leaf of explanatory text. Publisher's red morocco with imperial insignia and lettering in gilt, uncut (rebacked and restored with old spine relaid, stain to lower board, new endpapers).
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