Photographs from the Private Collection of Margaret W. Weston

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Lot 123
  • 123

Henry Dixon 1820-1893

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Henry Dixon
  • 'TEMPLE OF HALEBID (PART OF NORTH FRONT)'
a plate from the album Views of Mysore (Mysore, 1868-69), albumen print with arched top, initialed by the photographer in the negative, mounted, two labels, with the title and photographer's credit in letterpress, on the mount, matted, circa 1868

Provenance

Lunn Ltd., New York/Paris

Acquired by Margaret W. Weston from the above, 1995

Catalogue Note

The photograph offered here comes from the album entitled Views of Mysore, created for the Mysore government in 1868.  The album, containing 129 photographs, served as a visual record of the temples of Mysore.  Views of Mysore was one of several albums Dixon produced under the employ of the Madras government, each documenting the temples in southern India.