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Beato, Felice
Italian (1825-1903)

TITLE ON OBJECT: "Rooshun oo Dowlah's" House, "Kaisir Bagh"

1857-58
albumen print
21.8 x 28.6 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 12173
81:2937:0022

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13528-20

INSCRIPTION: mat recto-(in brown ink) "'Rooshun oo Dowlahs' House, 'Kaisir Bagh.'"

NOTES: Catalogued 3/96, DZ. In the book, --The Army in India, 1850-1914--m 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, palace
landscape, gardens
landscape, figures in

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