Calcutta, Bombay & Simla : Bourne & Shepherd (active 1864-1900s)
Colonel Sir Augustus Fitzgeorge with an Elephant 1875-6
Albumen print | 13.7 x 10.1 cm (image) | RCIN 2114228
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Photograph of Colonel Sir Augustus Fitzgeorge (1847-1933) with an elephant. He is standing beside the elephant, with his right hand resting on its side and a rifle in his left hand. There is an Indian man holding a rifle in the howdah on the elephant's back and another man sitting on the elephant's neck.
This is one of a series of photographs from a published volume documenting the tour the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, made of India in 1875-76.Provenance
Presented to Alexandra, Princess of Wales by her husband the Prince of Wales at Christmas 1876
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Medium and techniques
Albumen print
Measurements
13.7 x 10.1 cm (image)
Category
Object type(s)
Alternative title(s)
NO. 128. CAPT. FITZ-GEORGE AND ELEPHANT.