Collections · A guide to the archive
Read court portraits and early photographs through their makers, recorded inscriptions, printing stages and later custody.
Choose one image and list the events its record actually distinguishes. A sitter’s lifetime, a drawing, a published print, an exposure and a later photographic copy can carry different dates. Compare the portrait and city-photograph guides without treating a shared subject as proof of shared authorship or identical physical objects. Preserve an unknown maker and a gap in custody where the evidence leaves them unresolved.
An intentional selection
A drawing, a published print and a later album watercolour show why the sitter’s lifetime, an inscription and an object’s production date need separate checks.
Compare an equestrian portrait, an Eden print and a museum record with conflicting medium fields while keeping each object’s date and collecting trail.
Separate the painting’s production and exhibition dates from an online reproduction and a later display credit; those records leave gaps in the ownership history.
Compare three Duleep Singh photograph records through exposure dates, later printing, studio attribution and documented acquisition and custody histories.
Read three early Lahore photograph records through date ranges, negative numbers, mounted dimensions and a royal tour album’s separate presentation history.
Compare Golden Temple photograph records with an album finding aid, preserving approximate dates, qualified makers, mount sizes and unidentified photographers.
Read Punjab postcards through three catalogue examples, keeping printing ranges, assembled sheets, colour descriptions and unknown makers in their proper scope.
How we use sources, explain uncertainty and correct mistakes.
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