The Darjeeling-Himalayan Railway. The loop below Tindharia.
Samuel Bourne’s photographs display a compositional elegance which appealed to Victorian notions of the ‘picturesque’; strategically framed landscapes of rugged mountain scenery, forests, rivers, lakes and rural dwellings. Bourne chose his routes with care, planning his itineraries based on the latest maps, the locations of renowned geological features, glaciers, high passes, the sources of major rivers, unusual land forms with fossils and places of archaeological note.
Observation post on a road at Darjeeling in India.
Picturesque bridge over the Rungnoo below Ging, Darjeeling in the 1860s.Humayun’s tomb in Delhi, India.Lahore gateway to Red Fort in Delhi, India.Three temples on a road at Thanjavur in India.Seringham temple at Tiruchirapalli in India.View of Eden Gardens, Calcutta. Dated 1865. Courtesy of the British Library, London.Lord Hardinge sculpture and monument Ochterlony at Calcutta in India.Simla from Jakko.Dak Bungalow of Narkanda Village of Shimla District in Indian State of Himachal Pradesh in 1868.Dilkoosha Palace bij Lucknow in India.Fatehpur Sikri ruins in India.
