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Beato, Felice
Italian (1825-1903)

TITLE ON OBJECT: The Barrack in which General Wheeler lived.

1857-58
albumen print
24.9 x 30.1 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 3996
81:2937:0023

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13528-19
NON-GEH NUMBER: 2A

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Auchinleck, Claude, Sir. --The Army in India: 1850-1914.-- London: Hutchinsons of London, 1968. pl. 22.//

INSCRIPTION: mat recto-(in brown ink) "The Barrack in which General Wheeler lived." mat verso-(in pencil) "2A" (rubberstamp) "H. Guttmann, 3, Kinch Grove, Wembley. Tel:-Arnold 2488"

NOTES: Catalogued 3/96, DZ. "Part of the Barracks held by General Wheeler at Cawnpore - after the bombardment." [--The Army in India: 1850-1914--, p. 35] 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, war ravaged
landscape, figures in
people, soldiers

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