Glacier below the Manirung Pass

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Glacier below the Manirung Pass
Glacier below the Manirung Pass
Artist/Maker (British, 1834 - 1912)
Date1866
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsSheet: 11 7/16 × 8 13/16 in. (29.1 × 22.4 cm) Image: 11 7/16 × 8 13/16 in. (29.1 × 22.4 cm) Mount: 14 3/4 × 16 3/8 in. (37.5 × 41.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of David, Class of 1978, and Shelley Spector Garfinkel
Object number1990.4.7
Not on view
Description"After some initial success as a professional photographer in England, Samuel Bourne sailed to India in 1863 and soon after his arrival opened a studio in Simla. From there he embarked on three successive photographic expeditions to the Himalayas, which brought him wide recognition and which he described in the pages of the "British Journal of Photography" in issues dating from 1864 to 1870. By the time Bourne left India in 1870 to return to England, he had produced over 2,500 views, mostly of architecture and landscapes, which, distributed by his partner Charles Shepherd, constitute the most exhaustive record made in India by a single photographer. Bourne's carefully thought-out, meticulously crafted images were collected by tourists, archaeologists, and botanists alike." (SOURCE: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, http://metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/286879)
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Alternate Titles Kulu, Spiti; Glacier, Below the Manirung Pass
Provenance 1990: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of David A. Garfinkel and Shelley Garfinkel.
Markings No markings noted.
Published References FRIENDS OF ART NEWSLETTER (Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, vol. 1, no. 4, April 1991, "Acquisitions").
Signature Signed "Bourne 1471" at lower right in negative.
Inscribed "1471 Glacier below the Manirung Pass" at lower center mount in pencil; "#117" at lower right mount in pencil; "002156" on verso center.
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