Samuel Bourne
Lucknow
About this artwork
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title:Lucknow
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accession number:PGP R 1024.11
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materials:Albumen print
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date created:Unknown
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measurements:23.10 x 28.90 cm
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credit line:Gift of Mrs. Riddell in memory of Peter Fletcher Riddell, 1985
Samuel Bourne
Samuel Bourne
Samuel Bourne was a Nottingham bank clerk with a passion for photography. In 1862 he left England for India and remained there for seven years, travelling extensively in the western Himalayas. Bourne often required forty servants to carry his bulky and fragile equipment. Given the challenges of working at high…