The Kutub Minar

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The Kutub Minar

Artist Samuel Bourne (British, 1834-1912)

Date1869

DimensionsImage: 9 1/2 x 12 in. (24.1 x 30.5 cm)
sheet: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)

MediumAlbumen silver print

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LineGift of Wm. B. Becker

Object number

2003.85

Not on View

Descriptionmounted on gray board Albumen silver print mounted on board, depicting the Kutub Minar, Delhi, taken by Samuel Bourne in 1869. The title and date is written in the glass negative at the bottom center. Added in pen at the lower right is the artist's name and negative number: "Bourne 1369."

Exhibition HistoryTMA New Works on Paper Dec. 2005 - Mar. 5, 2006Comparative ReferencesSee also: Sophie Gordon, The Imperial Gaze: The photographs of Samuel Bourne (New York: Sepia International Inc. and the Alkazi Collection of Photography, 2000). cf.: Arthur Ollman, Samuel Bourne: Images of India (Carmel, Calif.: Friends of Photography, 1983). cf.: Susan L. Williams, Samuel Bourne: In Search of the Picturesque (Williamstown: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1981).