Sketches in India : taken at Hyderabad and Secunderabad, in the Madras Presidency / by Captain Allan N. Scott, Madras Artillery ; edited by Charles Richard Weld, barrister-at-law.
Published / Created:
London : Lovell Reeve, 5, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, 1862.[London] : Printed by John Edward Taylor, Little Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, [1862]
Physical Description:
1 volume (various pagings) : 101 albumen prints ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:11379979
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Frontispiece and illustrations are 101 albumen photographs, 3 x 3 inches each (top corners rounded), mounted on an embossed page. The photographs of Hyderabad and its peoples are among the earliest known.
Contents:
1 to 12. Scenery and antiquities at Golconda, near Hyderabad (Deccan) -- 13 to 19. Miscellaneous tombs and temples -- 20 to 34. Views at Hyderabad (Deccan), Secunderabad, and their vicinity -- 35 to 47. Sketches illustrating English life in India -- 48 to 100. Sketches of native character, portraits of noble-men, etc.
Subject Terms:
British -- India -- Pictorial works. | Photography -- India -- 19th century. | Hyderabad (India) -- Pictorial works. | Secunderābād (India) -- Pictorial works. | India -- Pictorial works. | India -- Description and travel.
Form/Genre:
Albumen prints. | Photographs.
Contributors:
Weld, Charles Richard, 1813-1869, editor. | Reeve, Lovell, 1814-1865, publisher. | Taylor, John Edward, active 1840-1855, printer.