CEYLON & AUSTRALIA, c.1880s

Albumen prints (84), depicting a variety of landscape views and portrait studies across Ceylon and Australia, measuring between 15.5 x 20cm and 23 x 28.5cm, many credited to photographers/distributors in the negative and in blindstamp, including Scowen & Co; Apothecaries Co Ltd; C.A. Co; Henry King; Hutch &Co; S. Spurling; and John Watt Beattie . Mounted one or two per page, recto and verso. Housed in red morocoo boards, lower cover detached, heavily rubbed with some binding loss and some pages detached. Subjects include: Colombo Harbour; various colonial buildings in Colombo; Cinnamon Gardens; Cingalese Fruit Sellers; Kalam River; Bullock Cart; portraits of Rodiya Women; the Buddhist Temple of the Tooth in Kandy; The Lake at Colombo; Elephants near Kandy; a studio portrait of a Kandian Chief and his family; Hatton Station; the Peak Hotel; Benagalla Estate, Haputali; a view of a tea field; and various other portraits; street views of Melbourne; St. Kilda Pier, Melbourne; the Botanical Gardens in Melbourne; Ryans Gardens, Mount Macedon; Watts River, Fernshaw; street and landscape views of Ballarat; street views of Sydney; views from inside the Genolan Caves, including the Broken Column in Lucas Cave and Crystal City; Wentworth Falls; Lone Mountain in Kanimbla Valley; various street and garden views of Brisbane; four Aboriginal portrait studies; general views of Launceston; Cataract Gorge, Launceston; and one view of Hobart from Glebe.