Impey Family Photograph Albums
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FSA A1993.09
name: label: Photographer
content: Impey, Eugene Clutterbuck Captain
label: Creator
content: Scowen & Co.
label: Creator
content: Woodbury & Page
place: label: Place
content: India -- description and travel
label: Place
content: Sri Lanka
label: Place
content: Java
label: Place
content: India -- West Bengal -- Calcutta (Kolkata)
creator: label: Photographer
content: Impey, Eugene Clutterbuck Captain
label: Creator
content: Scowen & Co.
label: Creator
content: Woodbury & Page
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: E.C. Impey, an important figure in the early photography of India, was one of a number of British soldiers to take up that medium in the 1850's-1860's. Impey, whose grandfather, Sir Elijah Impey and his wife Mary were highly important patrons of Indian painting, was also related to 19th century photographers Sir John Herschel and Julia Margaret Cameron. Sir Elijah Impey was an extremly influencial justice at the onset of British colonization of India. Despite his presence in India for only just over eight years, he was appointed to preside in Sudder Dewannee Adawlet, the court of appeals for civil causes from the provincial council, and also acted as the chief justice of the state of Bengals. In addition, he was responsible for prepring the Code of Rules,Orders and Regulation (1781) , an important colonial cornerstone of the British contribution to the codification of Indian law.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 304 Albumen prints (approximate count)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1850-1889
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Purchased from Ken and Jenny Johnson Nineteenth Century Photographs, Essex, U.K., 01/13/93. Originally received was also a salt print by photographer Frederick Fiebig, which was then transfered to Mr. Leon Jacobson (father of Ken Jacobson) of Fort Myers, Florida on 12/06/93.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A1993.09
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Albumen prints
label: Type
content: Salted paper prints
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: prints (predominantly housed in 2 photo albums) : organized in 3 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Salted paper prints -- 1840-1860
label: Genre/Form
content: Albumen prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Two personal photo albums of Captain Eugene Clutterbuck Impey containing images of his brother, Captain Henry Dixon and other unidentified photographers (some initialled in the negative) of the late 1850's and early 1860's, and British colonials. There are also images of various Indian peoples, a still life of game birds, a panoramic view supposedly of ruins after the Mutiny, and architectural images.