J.W. Newland
1850 (ca)
Portrait of a British officer stationed in Calcutta, India

Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Auction 110, 19th - 21st Century Photography, 6 December 2017, Lot: 4048
 
A small stamped envelope with a One Penny Red postage stamp (issued 1841), addressed to Thomas Waugh Esq., The Grove, Cumberwell, London is stored behind the daguerreotype in the case, indicating that this might be the identity of the sitter.
 
Lit.: Joachim K. Bautze/Raffael Dedo Gadebusch. Picturesque Views. Mughal India in Nineteenth-Century Photography, Ostfildern 2008, ill. p. 19.
 
LL/78535