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Collection Area Printed Collections Material Type Photographs

11. 010056.i.4(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
010056.i.4(18)
Title:
Tara Khothe or Star House [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view, looking across the lawn towards the two-storey Taronwali Kothi: 'The reason why this was called the Star House is, that it was intended for an observatory. It forms a kind of set-off to the general extravagance for which the Kings of Oudh were noto...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1874
Extent:
1 item

12. 010056.i.4(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
010056.i.4(19)
Title:
Memorial of massacre of European captives [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the memorial, 'a very modest unpretending looking obelisk.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1874
Extent:
1 item

13. 010056.i.4(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
010056.i.4(2)
Title:
General Havelock's Tomb [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the obelisk in the grounds of the Alum Bagh (see print 1). Havelock died of dysentery at the Dilkusha Palace (see print 5) in Lucknow on 24 November 1857, after relieving the city in September.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1874
Extent:
1 item

14. 010056.i.4(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
010056.i.4(20)
Title:
Kunkurwali Kothe [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view from the driveway, looking towards the two-storey stone mansion with porte-cochère, the Kankarwali Kothi or Pebble House, built by Saadat Ali Khan. The building no longer survives.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1874
Extent:
1 item

15. 010056.i.4(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
010056.i.4(21)
Title:
Noorbaksh ki Kothe or Light giving house [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view from the driveway, looking towards the two-storey stone Nur Bakhsh Kothi, 'so named because, when illuminated, from its great height it lighted up the neighbourhood for miles around: it was built by Newab Saadut Ali Khan and became the residence of ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1874
Extent:
1 item

16. 010056.i.4(22)

Reference (shelfmark):
010056.i.4(22)
Title:
Gate of Kaiser Bagh [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the entrance gateway and flanking façades of the Kaiserbagh, 'or the famous palace of the ex-King, Wajid Ali Shah Sultan-a-Aulum. This great palace was commenced by the ex-King in the year 1850, and, in his wild ambition to have a palace of ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1874
Extent:
1 item

17. 010056.i.4(23)

Reference (shelfmark):
010056.i.4(23)
Title:
Lunka in the Kaiser Bagh [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of this most peculiar building, consisting of two ranges, each with four octagonal corner towers, linked by a central bridge; described in Rosie Llewellyn-Jones (ed), 'Lucknow city of illusion,' Prestel, 2006, p. 60): 'Several of the structures in t...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1874
Extent:
1 item

18. 010056.i.4(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
010056.i.4(24)
Title:
Bara-duree of Kaiser Bagh [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of one of the single-storied pavilions in the Kaiserbagh enclosure.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1874
Extent:
1 item

19. 010056.i.4(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
010056.i.4(25)
Title:
Saadut Ali Khan's Tomb [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the domed tomb.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1874
Extent:
1 item

20. 010056.i.4(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
010056.i.4(26)
Title:
Moorshud Zadi's Tomb [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the domed tomb of Begum Khurshid Zadi.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1874
Extent:
1 item