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Beato, Felice
Italian (1825-1903)

TITLE ON OBJECT: The "Grave Yard."

1857-58
albumen print
22.4 x 29.9 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 12184
81:2937:0011

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13528-11
NON-GEH NUMBER: 2B

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Auchinleck, Claude, Sir. --The Army in India: 1850-1914.-- London: Hutchinsons of London, 1968. pl. 25.//

INSCRIPTION: mat recto-(in brown ink) "The 'Grave Yard.'" mat verso-(in pencil) "2B"

NOTES: Catalogued 3/96, DZ. "Graveyard and Residency at Lucknow." [--The Army in India: 1850- 1914--. p. 38] 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]

SUBJECT: architecture, war ravaged

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