Photographer Unknown, early 20th Century
Photographer Unknown, early 20th Century

A album of 70 photograps of Hyderabad and it environs, including portraits of Mr Reginald Isidore Robert Glancy with staff of Finance Office; View of the Finance Office, H.E.H. the Nizam's Government; View of the New High Court Construction; View of Mr Glancy's Bungalow; Gandipett Project Works; Mint Dynoma; Shell Work Shop - Mint; View of the Observatory Building; Charminar; Char Kaman Mecca Masjid; Warter Tower in the Public Garden; Mushirabad Mosque; Golconda Fort, General View; Tomb of Jamshed Quli; Tomb of Muhammad Qutb Shah; Madrasa Mahamad Gawan, Bidar; Tomb of Ali Barid, Bidar; Bibika Mosque - Aurangabad; Chand Minar - Daulatabad Fort (before restoration); Ravana shaking the Kailasa - Ellora; Thousand pillar Temple - Hanumakonda; Shiva Temple - Dichpalli (Nizamabad); Nanganatha Temple - Aundha (Parbhani); and View of the Mir Alum Tank

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Photographer Unknown, early 20th Century
A album of 70 photograps of Hyderabad and it environs, including portraits of Mr Reginald Isidore Robert Glancy with staff of Finance Office; View of the Finance Office, H.E.H. the Nizam's Government; View of the New High Court Construction; View of Mr Glancy's Bungalow; Gandipett Project Works; Mint Dynoma; Shell Work Shop - Mint; View of the Observatory Building; Charminar; Char Kaman Mecca Masjid; Warter Tower in the Public Garden; Mushirabad Mosque; Golconda Fort, General View; Tomb of Jamshed Quli; Tomb of Muhammad Qutb Shah; Madrasa Mahamad Gawan, Bidar; Tomb of Ali Barid, Bidar; Bibika Mosque - Aurangabad; Chand Minar - Daulatabad Fort (before restoration); Ravana shaking the Kailasa - Ellora; Thousand pillar Temple - Hanumakonda; Shiva Temple - Dichpalli (Nizamabad); Nanganatha Temple - Aundha (Parbhani); and View of the Mir Alum Tank
the album bound in dark blue morocco, with gilt border to upper cover enclosing gilt presentation inscription, 'Presented to R. I. R. Glancy, Esq., C.I.E., I.C.S., By the Officers of the Finance Department, Hyderabad, (Deccan.) April, 1919.' on the upper cover
gelatin silver prints mounted on 17 card leaves
the album 10¾ x 14¾in. (27.3 x 37.5cm.)
with a signed portrait photograph of 'Maharao Khengarji of Kutch' (2)
Provenance
Vincent Jerome Esch, and thence by descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

This album contains a photograph of Vincent Esch reviewing the construction of the New High Court in Hyderabad, for which he was the architect.

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