
Rhyanon Demery
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The first album includes albumen prints of Sri Lanka (31 smaller views and local portraits; 17 large, including 8 by Scowen & Co. of temples; Jetawanarama Dagoba, Samadhi Buddha stone, Moonstone guard, Thuparama Dagoba at Anuradhapurna), Burma (6 small), India (9, including Simla), Egypt (7 large, 3 signed by Lekegian), several of elephants (including 2 large, one being hoisted onto a ship). The album is unusually well decorated with the addition of watercolour views and embellishments on the borders, including scenes of Sri Lankan inhabitants, plants and animals (monkeys, parrots), Cairo types (veiled woman, man at prayer, drink seller, a border of boys swimming, street scene with donkeys), two large watercolours of elephants, etc.