EDMUND DAVID LYON (1825 - 1891)
Both Albumen print in good tonal / sepia range. c. 1870's
Dimension: a) 7.6 x 10.6 in, b) 7.8 x 10.6 in
Details
a) famous Meenakshi Temple in Madurai
b) Another street ( observe kerosene lamp post ) leading to the Entrance Gopuram of a Temple probably in Trichinopoly.
In good condition, pasted on original card and mounted.
Literature
EDMUND DAVID LYON (1825 - 1891)
Lyon served in the British Army 1845 - 1854 and was Governor of Dublin District Military Prison 1854 - 1856. Traveling to India he opened his photographic studio in Ootacamund in 1865. A series of photographs of the Nilgiris was shown at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1867. Under a commission firstly from the Madras
governments and later the Bombay government, he photographed archaeological sites and architectural antiquities during 1867 - 1868 assisted by his wife Grace. In 1871 his book 'Notes to Accompany a Series of Photographs Designed to Illustrate the Ancient Architecture of Western India' was published. Lyon photographed Malta on his return to England and eventually settled there in the late 1880s