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Beato, Felice
Italian (1825-1903)

TITLE ON OBJECT: The Clock Tower.

1857-58
albumen print
24.5 x 30.4 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 12149
81:2937:0020

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13528-23

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Auchinleck, Claude, Sir. --The Army in India: 1850-1914.-- London: Hutchinsons of London, 1968. pl. 17.//

INSCRIPTION: mat recto-(in brown ink) "The Clock Tower." (in pencil) "Lucknow" mat verso-(rubberstamp) "H. Guttmann, 3, Kinch Grove, Wembley, Tel:-Arnold 2488"

NOTES: Catalogued 3/96, DZ. "Clock tower in front of the Bailie Guard Gate." [--The Army in India: 1850-1914--. p. 30] 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

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