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MURRAY, Dr John.

The Kutub Minar, Delhi.

Stock Code
59625
1858
£2,500

Although trained as a medical doctor, Dr. John Murray excelled as a photographer. The Scottish-born doctor was introduced to photography around 1849, while in the Medical Service of the Army of the East India Company. Stationed near the Taj Mahal in Agra, he evidently developed a considerable interest in the Mughal architecture of the region. Throughout the forty-year period that Murray lived and worked in India, he systematically recorded many famous buildings in and around Agra and the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.

In the mid-1800s, no simple method of enlarging photographs existed. To make a sizable print, Murray worked with a large-format wooden camera capable of accepting negatives up to 16 by 20 inches. He worked with both glass and waxed-paper negatives; traveling photographers and those in remote places found the waxed-paper negatives particularly useful because the paper did not require immediate development. With this unwieldy equipment, Murray produced

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Albumen print, 35 x 43 cm. (13.5 x 17 inches). Fair tonal range and in good condition, photographer's title and number in negative, with printed caption on card 'Printed at the school of Industrial Art, Calcutta, /from a negative by /Dr. Murray, /Civil Surgeon, Agra'.

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