The Tree Fern, Prize Photo
Samuel Bourne
1863
Medium
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
29.6 × 24.4 cm (11 11/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
Classification
albumen silver print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
150430
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Samuel Bourne learned photography in England, where he was active in the Nottingham Photographic Society, but it was in India that he made his photographic reputation. He arrived in Calcutta in early 1863, and published his adventures there as a series of articles in the British Journal of Photography. Bourne remained in India for seven years, producing—often under difficult conditions—over 2,500 architectural and landscape views of the Himalayan mountains and foothills, particularly around the ...