The Buckingham and Carnatic Mills Madras

Unusually large photogravure of The Buckingham and Carnatic Mills Madras by Eckert & Pflug Kunstanstalt, Leipzig from the early 1900s. The image depicts the Buckingham and Carnatic Mills, popularly known as B & C Mills, which were textile mills run by Binny and Co in the city of Chennai, India from 1876/8 to 1996. The site is now used as a container freight station and is a popular venue for film shootings.
Binny & Co, one of the biggest private enterprises in the then city of Madras, set up its own textile mill, the Buckingham Mills in the wedge between Perambur, Vepery and Basin Bridge. The Carnatic Mills were founded on 30 June 1881. The two companies were then merged in 1920.
Eckert & Pflug was an art publisher founded in Leipzig in 1891 by Wilhelm Feodor Moritz Heinrich Eckert and Ferdinand Oscar Pflug (d. 1930). It was considered to be the largest studio specializing in the pictorial representation of companies from a bird's eye view, with at times more than 100 trained artists and engravers. The company also acted as a publishing house and existed until 1964.
A photogravure is an intaglio print process that was sometimes used to produce high-quality reproductions of photographs in ink. A positive transparency of a photographic image is used to control the etching of a specially prepared metal plate.

The artwork measures 23.5 x 47.5 inches without the frame and 24.5 x 48.5 inches with the frame.