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Beato, Felice
Italian (1825-1903)

TITLE ON OBJECT: The Martiniere College.

1857-58
albumen print
24.8 x 30.9 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 12151
81:2937:0009

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13528-09
NON-GEH NUMBER: 3A

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Auchinleck, Claude, Sir. --The Army in India: 1850-1914.-- London: Hutchinsons of London, 1968. pl. 19.//

INSCRIPTION: mat recto-(in brown ink) "The Martinere College." mat verso-(in pencil) "3A"

NOTES: Catalogued 3/96, DZ. "La Martiniere." [--The Army in India: 1850-1914--, p. 32] "La Martiniere was built in the Italian style by a Frenchman, General Martin, in the pay of the ruler of Lucknow during the late eighteenth century. It was used as a boys' school at the time of the Mutiny, and fortified by the Mutineers to oppose Colin Campbell on his march to retake Lucknow in March 1858." [--The Army in India: 1850-1914--, p. 172] In the book, --The Army in India, 1850-1914--, Sir Claude Auchinleck states, "In March 1858 [Major-General Colin] Campbell with a force of some 25,000 men recaptured Lucknow from the rebels - but with heavy loss. It was on this march that the photographer Felice Beato took his photographs." [p. 26]

SUBJECTS:
architecture, ornate
street scene, figures in

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