14th Nov, 2019 10:00

Photographica

 
  Lot 33
 

Skeen & Co (1866-1920) CEYLON, c.1880s, a collection of albumen prints (29), image size, average 270mm x 210mm, mounted recto and verso onto contemporary album leaves (15) measuring (365mm x 255mm), with handwritten titles in ink lower margin, Ethnographic Portraits include; Singhalese Men & Woman, Kandyan Chief and a Buddhist Priest. Topographical subjects include, Colombo Harbour, The Galle Face Hotel, Maidan & Fortifications, Early Dutch Foritifications, Kandy; view of the town, The Queens Hotel, The Old Palace,  Peradenryia Botanical Gardens, Thuparama Dagoba - the first Buddhist temple in Ceylon, Kingdom of Anuradhapura, the majority of images signed and numbered in the negative, one leave blank with two handwritten labels affixed

Sold for £400

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