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    • GRIFFITH, FRANCIS ROBERT Caves of Ellora, India, circa 1850-1860.
      Jun. 21, 2023

      GRIFFITH, FRANCIS ROBERT Caves of Ellora, India, circa 1850-1860.

      Est: $300 - $500

      GRIFFITH, FRANCIS ROBERT Caves of Ellora, India, circa 1850-1860. A rare waxed paper negative (patented Talbotype/calotype), 9 1/2 x 13 inches (240 x 330 mm) including margins, the verso with Griffith's signature, plate number and title in ink. Marginal tears just entering the image on the lower margin. C 

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    • Francis Robert Griffith (1828-1901) - India, a large collection of paper negatives, landscape, architectural and a few figure subjects, la
      Nov. 21, 2014

      Francis Robert Griffith (1828-1901) - India, a large collection of paper negatives, landscape, architectural and a few figure subjects, la

      Est: £15,000 - £20,000

      72 paper negatives, waxed, some with the watermark "R.TURNER PATENT TALBOTYPE" , all but 6 signed, titled and numbered in ink on the versos, one (illustrated above left) identified as Griffith on verso, two dated 1859 and 1863 in unknown hand verso, the skies painted out each approximately 23.5 x 33cm (9 1/4 x 13in) Provenance: By descent from the photographer to the present owner Literature: Roger Taylor with Larry Schaaf, Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives , 1840-1860, p.321, illus.45 An unpublished and previously unrecorded family archive of paper negatives by Griffith. Smaller dispersals were made at Sotheby's between 1974 and 1980 but this is the largest collection known. The use of "Talbotype" paper suggests that images were developed according to Fox Talbot's original calotype process and then waxed before printing. (See Taylor and Schaaf, op.cit.) As an engineer Griffith travelled widely and locations of the present subjects range between north west India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka). The manuscript titles include The Tank, Walkeshwar, Bombay; Walkeshwar (Temples), Bombay; Malabar (x 4); Matheran (x6); The Duke's Nose, Khandala; The Bhore Ghaut, Khandala; Kotagiri, Nilghiri Hills; Ootacamund, Neilgherries (2-part panorama); Coonoor, Neilgherries (x3); Rama Daumees, Neilgherries; Calicut Lighthouse; Caves of Ellora (Maharashtra); Aurangabad; Falls of Gorok (x6); Tomb Surat; Broach (Bharuch, north west India); Baroda (x3); Sattara; Waee (near Mahabaleshwar) (x3); Banian tree (x2); Basseiu (x2); Beejapoor (x11); Temple Tasgaon (x2); Ahmednuggur; Dawlutabad; Karla Cave; The Bund, Poona (x2) and Singhur Fortress (x2). (In several cases the original spelling has been corrected for clarity.) Few details of Griffith's life have hitherto been recorded but new information from family sources allows us to extend his biography. He was born in 1828 at the Rectory in the village of Corsley, Wiltshire, some 17 miles south of Fox Talbot's home at Lacock Abbey. At the age of 19 he left England and embarked on a series of adventures which took him first to Jamaica to look after family interests there. Having studied surveying in England he worked on plans for a railway extension and an irrigation channel. This experience proved useful in 1853 when he sailed for Australia to work the Bendigo goldfields north of Melbourne. After several more years travelling the world, and encouraged by his younger brother who was already well established at Poona in the Western Indian state of Maharashtra, he settled in India in about 1855. There followed a long and successful career as a civil engineer in the Public Works Department of the Indian Civil Service. He met his future wife, Henrietta Sherman, in the Nilgiri hill station of Kotagiri and they were married at Madras in 1863. They lived at "Corsley" in Kotogiri and raised a family of seven children. After his retirement in 1880, Griffith established a coffee and, later, tea plantation and "Corsley Tea" is still produced today. Where, and from whom, he learned photography remains to be discovered.

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    • FRANCIS ROBERT GRIFFITH (ACTIVE 1850S)
      Nov. 20, 2009

      FRANCIS ROBERT GRIFFITH (ACTIVE 1850S)

      Est: €4,000 - €6,000

      BASSEIN, INDE, VERS 1855-1860 Négatif papier. Titré et signé à l'encre noire au verso. Annoté n°19. Paper negative, titled and signed in black ink on the reverse.

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