ABSTRACT
An amateur calotypist, Dr John Murray, had been making wax-paper negatives at Agra since about 1853, and had been participating in the Photographic Society of Bengal since it began in January 1856. Shortly after Baker began to display his stereo-daguerreotypes of Agra in Calcutta, in London the publisher Joseph Hogarth began to sell ‘Photographic Views in Agra and its Vicinity’, which were salted-paper prints made in Britain from Murray’s Indian negatives. For instance, between 1855 and 1857 the Indian architect Ahmad Ali Khan was making daguerreotypes and salt-paper prints in the Indian courts and among the British and Indian residents of Lucknow, before it convulsed in rebellion. Kight did leave Calcutta to travel across India with his balloon. The Illustrated London News erroneously reported that he had been killed when, in December 1853, his balloon suddenly descended ‘at a frightful rate’ from 8,000 feet into the sea off Bombay.
