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Artist/Maker
Samuel Bourne
(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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Additional Details
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.
Date: 19th century
Medium: Brass
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Cecil Beaton
Date: 1944; published 1945
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1982.15
Augustus Rockwell
Date: 1865
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object number: 1873.2
Samuel Bourne
Date: c. 1866
Medium: Albumen print
Object number: 1990.4.9
Thomas Nast
Date: published November 13, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.298
William H. Beard
Date: 1878
Medium: Oil on canvas, mounted on masonite
Object number: 1971.1
Paul Strand
Date: 1915 (published October 1916)
Medium: Photogravure on Japan paper
Object number: 1993.6