Bonhams is offering an important album of photographs of India, Nepal, and British Isles, compiled by Capt. Eugene Clutterbuck Impey and consisting of 94 abumen prints, dating from c1860-65 albumen prints, and with an estimate of £15,000-25,000. The catalogue footnote says:
PRIZE AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION ALBUM, INCLUDING IMAGES OF INDIA BY EUGENE CLUTTERBUCK IMPEY, IMPORTANT EARLY VIEWS OF NEPAL BY CLARENCE C. TAYLOR, AND FINE LANDSCAPES AND STILL-LIFES BY 1860S PHOTOGRAPHERS, many associated with the Amateur Photographic Association. Founded in May 1861, each year members supplied the Association with negatives for printing in exchange for prints from other members. "Prize Albums" such at this belonging to Impey appear to have been awarded to winners in annual competitions, then the contents added by the owner. In this case Impey has included many fine amateur photographers (some based, as himself, in Asia) with fine examples of Indian views by Bourne, Shepherd and other noted professional photographers.
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