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1. Photo 1100

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1100
Title:
Sladen Collection: Views at Lucknow and Cawnpore by Felice Beato, taken after the Indian Mutiny.
Scope & Content:
Collection of 17 loose albumen prints, each measuring approximately 300x250mm, captioned in pencil on the reverse, showing locations in Lucknow and Cawnpore (Kanpur) relating top events in the Indian Mutiny. From the collection of Sir Edward Bosc Sladen. The prints exhibit overall yellowing, but...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1858
Extent:
17 items

2. Photo 1100(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1100(1)
Title:
Dil-Koosha, summer residence of Royal Oudh Family [3. The Dilkoosha Palace.- First attack of Sir Colin Campbell in November, 1857; second attack, 2nd March]. Photographer: Beato, Felice
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Dilkusha Palace, looking along the front of the building from the left. Caption as it appears in Hering's catalogue of Beato's views in square brackets. [Albumen print, 299x249mm]. Subjects = Anglo-Indian architecture; country houses; Indi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1858
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1100(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1100(2)
Title:
Bailie Guard Gate, Residency, Lucknow, May 1858. [34. Gateway leading into the Residency held by Capt. Aitken, 13th N.I., commonly Bailee Guard-gate.] Photographer: Beato, Felice
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Baillie Guard Gate, showing the effects of bullet and shot. Caption as it appears in Hering's catalogue of Beato's views in square brackets. [Albumen print, 312x236mm]. Subjects = gateways; Sladen Collection
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
May 1858
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1100(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1100(3)
Title:
Wheeler's Entrenchment, Cawnpore. 2nd Dragoon Gds. [58. [or 59.] General Wheeler's Entrenchment at Cawnpore]. Photographer: Beato, Felice
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking towards shell-scarred buildings, with officers and men of the Dragoon Guards posed in the foreground. Caption as it appears in Hering's catalogue of Beato's views in square brackets. [Albumen print, 310x221mm]. Subjects = Sladen Collection
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1858
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1100(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1100(4)
Title:
Secundra Bagh [Lucknow] - Interior - dead Pandies grouped!!!! [13. Interior of the Secundra Bagh after the slaughter of 2,000 rebels by the 93rd Highlanders and 4th Punjab Regt. - First attack of Sir Colin Campbell in November, 1857]. Photographer: Beato, Felice
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events View looking across the courtyard towards the bullet-scarred buildings, with bones and human remains of rebels scattered in the foreground. It has been convincingly argued (see note and reference at Photo 27(2)) that Beato undertook some creative re-arrangement of bones...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
May 1858
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1100(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1100(5)
Title:
Group of No. 10 Company Madras Fusiliers, Lucknow, May 1858. Photographer: Beato, Felice
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of officers of the Madras Fusiliers. The blue caps of all the sitters and red tunic of one man have been lightly, if somewhat crudely hand-coloured. [Albumen print, 299x237mm]. Subjects = hand-coloured prints; Indian Army; Madras Fusiliers; military...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
May 1858
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1100(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1100(6)
Title:
Group No. 10 Company Madras Fusiliers, taken during a dust storm, Lucknow, May 1858. Photographer: Beato, Felice
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Duplicate of print 5, similarly hand-coloured. [Albumen print, 293x230mm]. Subjects = hand-coloured prints; Indian Army; Madras Fusiliers; military (general); Sladen Collection
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
May 1858
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1100(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1100(7)
Title:
La Martinière - Col. Brayser and his Seik Corps [6. The Martinière, Brayser's Sikhs.- The first attack of Sir Colin Campbell in November, 1857; second attack in March]. Photographer: Beato, Felice
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of Claude Martin's palace, with Sikh soldiers posed in foreground. Caption as it appears in Hering's catalogue of Beato's views in square brackets. [Albumen print, 302x247mm]. Subjects = Brayser's Sikhs; country houses; European architecture in I...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1858
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1100(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1100(8)
Title:
Secundra Bagh exterior - shewing breach through which it was entered. [12. The Secundra Bagh, showing the breach and gateway.- First attack of Sir Colin Campbell in November, 1857]. Photographer: Beato, Felice
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events View along the exterior wall, looking towards the gatehouse, with the breach in the wall in the foreground. Caption as it appears in Hering's catalogue of Beato's views in square brackets. [Albumen print, 301x227mm]. Subjects = Indian architecture; palaces; Sladen Co...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1858
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1100(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1100(9)
Title:
Shah-i-Musjeef and 32nd mess house. [15. The Shah Mujjuf. - The First attack of Sir Colin Campbell in November, 1857]. Photographer: Beato, Felice
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the exterior wall and domed Shah Najaf, tomb of Ghazi-ud-Din Haidar, with thatched mess house in foreground. Caption as it appears in Hering's catalogue of Beato's views in square brackets. [Albumen print, 301x244mm]. Subjects = Indian ar...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1858
Extent:
1 item