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Beato, Felice
Italian (1825-1903)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Ancient Gun. Caunpore Road.

1857-58
albumen print
22.1 x 29.2 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 12183
81:2937:0013

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13528-14
NON-GEH NUMBER: 2A

INSCRIPTION: mat recto-(in brown ink) "Ancient Gun. Caunpore Road." (in pencil) "Altes Sedici (?) of, Lucknow, Cawfore Road" mat verso-(in pencil) "2A"

NOTES: Catalogued 3/96, DZ. 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:
cityscape, war ravaged
cityscape, figures in
artifact, cannon barrel

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