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Volume I: Untitled (photographs collected in India by a travelling theatre group) c.1880-1900

Artwork Volume I: Untitled (photographs collected in India by a travelling theatre group) this artwork made of 63 albumen and gelatin silver photographs bound in an album, created in 1880-01-01
Accession No.
2011.065.001-063
Date Created
c.1880-1900
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Asian Art
Dimensions A
Image sizes: a) 20.9 x 27.9cm; b) 7.6 x 12.7cm; c) 12.7 x 17.7cm (approx.)
Media Category
Photograph
Secondary Media Category
albumen photograph
Medium
63 albumen and gelatin silver photographs bound in an album
Place Created
India
Credit Line
Purchased 2011. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation

Carefully assembled and annotated by a member of the Williams family theatre group, which toured India in 1899–1900, these albums (I, III and IV) document the travels of two American actors, Jean Stewart Brown and Hannibal Williams. They cover a vast range of subjects in India, including views of monuments, architectural icons and temple sculpture (as in the image above, depicting the stone carving of Shiva's bull Nandi in Mysore); gardens and interior scenes; images of religious devotees and rituals; as well as portraits of labourers, royalty, officials, holy men, and Indian and Himalayan women. Together they provide a rich document of India at the height of the British Raj.
 

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