20. -. Taurines (Edward) and possibly others. An album of figure studies, groups and portraits, including “Nautch Girls” (illustrated), “Group of Parsees”, “Parsi and Brahmin Girls, Bombay”, “Group of Brahmins, Parbu Caste, Bombay”, “A Borah Merchant”, “Fakirs”, “Women of the Marwaree Caste”, “Group of Marwarees playing Chess”, “Manure Dryers, Bombay”, “Hill People, Central India”, “A Gipsy Dancing-Girl, Kathiawar”, “Bheel Women grinding Corn”, “A Marriage Procession with Musicians”, “Nautch Girls and Musicians”, “Goanese Serving Maid”, “The State Elephant of the Gaekwar of Baroda”, “The Thakore Saheb of Bhownaggar”, “The Thakore Saheb and his Ministers”, “His Highness the Jam of Jamnagar”, “His Highness the Rajah of Lakhtar” and “The Mohorrum Festival, Bombay ”, in all 60 albumen prints, each 180 x 230 mm., many titled (faintly) in the negative, others in pencil or ink below, mounted on both sides of leaves, two defective with small portions missing, some fading at edges, contemporary half roan, worn, lacking backstrip, lower cover detached, 4to, 1880s-1890s.
est. £1000 – £1500
Edward Taurines, an Italian-born photographer of whom little is known, operated from a studio in Bombay. These images are the same size and in a consistent style, and it is not impossible that they are all by him.