Posts Tagged ‘19th century’

Agra – the Delhi Gate and Fort.

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

This is an antique albumen print from around 1870, mounted on a contemporary album leaf with titling in contemporary ink.
Curiously, on verso there is another albumen print from around the same time, titled ‘Agra – the Zenana’.

The photograph displays the grandest of the two entrances to the fort. It leads to an inner gate – the Elephant Gate or Hathi Pol. The construction of the fort was begun by the Emperor Akbar in 1565.

Agra - the Delhi Gate and Fort.

Agra - the Delhi Gate and Fort.

235mm x 190mm. (9.25 x 7.5ins). (more…)

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‘Russian Central Asia; including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv.’

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Dr. Henry Lansdell

Volume I: Mounted Woodburytype photographic frontispiece, 35 engraved illustrations from the author’s photographs, folding map on linen.

Volume II: Engraved double-page frontispiece, 33 engraved illustrations (some double-page), folding ethnological map of Central Asia on linen. Half-calf, gilt. pp. xxix, (iii), 684; xv, 731. 8vo. (2 volumes).

This is the first edition, London 1885. There was a later Boston printing in the same year.

Russian Central Asia; including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv.

Russian Central Asia; including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv.

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Gate of the Loll-Baug at Fyzabad. Daniell, Thomas R.A. and Daniell, William.

Monday, June 7th, 2010

Gate of the Loll-Baug at Fyzabad.
Gate of the Loll-Baug at Fyzabad.

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Thomas and William Daniell: Oriental Scenery

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

Of the great European artists working on the Indian subcontinent in the 18th and 19th centuries, it was undoubtedly the Daniells, Thomas (1749 – 1840) and his nephew William (1769 – 1837), who played a pre-eminent role in recording and documenting the country. Their seven – year tour of India from 1786 to 1793 and the subsequent publication of their work brought to the public of Britain an unrivalled view of the scenery and architecture of this fabled and exotic land. (more…)

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The Schlagintweit brothers

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Hermann Schlagintweit, Sakünlünski (13 May 1826 – 19 January 1882), also known as Hermann Rudolph Alfred von Schlagintweit-Sakünlünski, the great German explorer of Central Asia was the eldest of the five Schlagintweit brothers from Munich. (more…)

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The Salt Lake Tsomognalari, in Pangkong, and The Salt Lake Tsomoriri in Rupchu, Western Tibet. H. Schlagintweit (1826-1882), A. Schlagintweit (1829-1857) R. Schlagintweit (1833-1885)

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

The Salt Lake Tsomognalari, in Pangkong, Western Tibet. H. Schlagintweit

The Salt Lake Tsomognalari, in Pangkong, Western Tibet. H. Schlagintwei LAKESFrom one of the greatest colour-printed works of the 19th century these two oleographic panoramas evoke the barren yet beautiful landscapes of Tibetan mountain lakes.

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