Scope and Contents

4 albums containing albumen prints. Y3022G-I were compiled by Harold Littledale and include photographs by Scowen and Co., A.T.W. Penn, Samuel Bourne and his successors, and others. Y3022I/A contains reproductions of the works of the Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma and was given to Littledale by the photographer V.G. Chiplonkar.

Scope and Contents An album measuring 305 x 250 mm. containing albumen reproductions of 24 paintings by the Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906). Numbers 1-22 relate to Indian mythology and are accompanied by printed captions explaining their subjects. Numbers 23-24 (also captioned) are portraits of women. Numbers 3, 17, and 21-23 are signed in the image by V.G. Chiplonkar, who may have been responsible for the others. Chiplonkar was associated with Baroda and may have been its court photographer. A note...