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Beato, Felice
Italian (1825-1903)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Entrance to the "Summa Musjid."

1857-58
albumen print
30.1 x 26.4 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 12159
81:2937:0016

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13528-18

INSCRIPTION: mat recto-(in brown ink) "Entrance to the 'Summa Musjid'-" (in ink) "(illeg.) der Aufstand (?)" mat verso-(rubberstamp) "H. Guttmann, 3, Kinch Grove, Wembley, Tel:-Arnold 2488"

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:
architecture, ornate
street scene, figures in

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