Photographs of Sri Lanka

Three albumen prints by the studio of Scowen & Co., circa 1880s, depicting a lake in Kanda, a group of Kandyan chiefs, and T.B. Panabokka and his family. Panabokka was the Kandyan member of the Legislative Council.

British photographer Charles T. Scowen arrived in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in the early 1870s, where he was first employed as a clerk. By 1876, Scowen had established a studio, Scowen & Co., in Kandy, with a second location appearing in Columbo by the 1890s. There appear to have been several Scowens working in the studios, as Charles T. Scowen returned to England in 1885. C. Scowen was listed as the proprietor until 1891 and M. Scowen was the proprietor when the firm was finally sold in 1893. Images from Scowen & Co. were used to illustrate a number of books about Ceylon and the tea trade.

FSA A1994.05

Scowen & Co.

Kandy (Sri Lanka)

Sri Lanka (Ceylon) -- Kandy -- Kandy

Families -- Sri Lanka

Box 1

Purchase, 1994.

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Prints

Prints

Landscapes (representations)

Albumen prints

Photographs

Portraits

Photographs of Sri Lanka. FSA.A1994.05. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

One flat box.

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Landscapes (representations) -- Ceylon

Albumen prints

Photographs

Portraits

Collection is open for research.