Samuel Bourne
1865 (ca)
Calcutta Docks, India

Albumen print, from wet collodion negative
Christie's - London
Courtesy of Christie's London (www.christies.com)
 
Calcutta, the one-time winter capital of the Raj, was, in Bourne's day, expanding into a major port. (John Hannavy, 2008)
 
This photograph was included in the book by John Hannavy "Great Photographic Journeys - in the footsteps of Pioneer British Photographers" (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2008 - # ISBN-10: 1904587542, # ISBN-13: 978-1904587545)
 
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